Over the past 25 years, turbochargers have gone from a relative rarity to a fixture of the new-car buying experience. Where in 2000 only 1% of new cars had the technology, according to the ...

One of the turbo engine's most iconic sounds is called the turbo flutter. That "stu-tu-tu-tu" sound the Nissan Skyline GTR R34 makes as the throttle closes is the sound of compressed air escaping past ...

Electric power isn't just for driving the wheels of a car. Audi uses electric turbochargers to defeat dreaded turbo lag and make engines more responsive. Here's how it works. Conventional ...

Turbochargers are known for making your car faster and more fuel efficient in exchange for a constant supply of clean oil to ...

Find out about the multi-million-dollar technology that runs today's Formula One cars. It’s generally understood that the more cylinders you have in your engine, the faster your car will be. However, ...

Turbochargers are one of the best methods for extracting more power out of an engine with less total displacement. Unlike a supercharger, which compresses air at the intake stage and runs off a belt ...

The Turbo gurus at Garrett Motion, once known as AiResearch, have figured out how to harvest the energy in a fuel cell’s hot water-vapor exhaust stream. Legacy auto industry suppliers of mechanical ...

A 1.6-liter V6 turbo revving at 15,000 rpm with unlimited boost that turns small drops of fuel into 600 horsepower aided by an electrical system that pumps out another 160 electron-charged horses.