Mercedes Considering Electric Turbocharging

Jun 15, 2015 | 01:06 PM

JonathonK

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Mercedes Considering Electric Turbocharging

An AMG exec has been making some bold statements about where Mercedes and AMG could be heading with electric turbocharging.

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Jun 23, 2015 | 11:09 PM

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Electric turbocharging? E-turbos?

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Originally Posted by JonathonK

An AMG exec has been making some bold statements about where Mercedes and AMG could be heading with electric turbocharging.

The public is already hopelessly confused on the difference between a supercharger and a turbocharger. It's probably too late to straighten them out. But we all know that a turbocharger has to have a turbine! So an electric turbocharger makes no sense.

Steffen Jastrow, Mercedes AMG’s head of compact car development, makes it even worse, with his yammering about "e-turbos". Sounds like something you download! What's wrong with "electro-charger"?

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