Installing a turbocharger requires plumbing from the exhaust side of the engine to the intake. An electric supercharger can be mounted close to the intake ports allowing for quicker boost response ...

Which leads into one of the most hotly-debated points of contention: turbo vs. supercharger. All other things equal, which will win on the quarter-mile blacktop? It's a question which has ...

But what are they? How do they work? And which one is better? We look at the differences between a supercharger and a turbocharger. To understand how forced induction works, you must first ...

Electric superchargers on production cars are centrifugal ... especially one that doesn’t require the hard-tooled plumbing of a turbocharger. With the growing popularity of hybrids, many cars ...

The RS5 TDI concept employs a similar idea with a 3.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 with an electric supercharger to make up for the turbo lag. It's able to pump out 385 horsepower and 553 pound ...