Lead photo shows a RamAire installation on a Chevy six, using one compressor belt. Acceleration was increased to match V8, but with the original fuel economy of the six. Production installation could ...

In their unending quest for a competitive edge, automakers will dream up some truly out-there patent applications just to preempt anyone else with the same idea and claim the technology or technique ...

Superchargers are magical devices. They increase the oxygen supply to the engine by compressing the air, thus increasing its density. Accordingly, the engine burns more air-fuel mixture and produces ...

Ford has filed a patent for an electric supercharger that could double as an on-board compressor pump or vacuum pump. The patent describes an electric supercharger with a valve that would block the ...

Superchargers and turbochargers, expensive as they are, are relatively simple in theory. They pull in outside air, compress it using turbine wheels and force the additional air into the combustion ...

There’s no replacement for displacement—unless you have a blower bolted onto the intake, like Kawasaki’s Ninja H2 motorcycles. These Japanese-made powerhouses use a centrifugal supercharger, forcing ...

A new kind of hybrid vehicle being developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich could save almost as much fuel as today’s gas-electric hybrids, but at a fraction of the cost. Swiss ...

At the 2016 Tokyo Motor Show, Kawasaki revealed a supercharger concept that claimed to have fine-tuned the compressor technology in its motorcycles to create increased performance, better power ...