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Originally Posted by jamesm
The idea there is that you can store the energy in a battery and use it when you want. A turbo can't do that. Basically, trying to get the immediate boost of a supercharger without the parasitic loss. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just spelling out the theoretical benefit to any sort of stored-energy or electric forced induction.
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Simplicity is the main benefit. Installation is similar to a CAI. It does not require all the supporting systems that a conventional exhaust driven turbo needs. My set-up provides ~20% duty cycle, so certainly it is less than a turbo or belt supercharge,r but for street performance driving, passing / merging/ standing start acceleration/ even a drag night or autocross, it is a refillable NOS equivalent.
Once the 24V battery is quickly fully charged the system has zero drag on the host engine, not so with a turbo or belt SC
. Overall electrical efficiency is ~85% during boosting, a belt SC drive train loss is ~90%. However, if you factor in parasitic drag, piping losses and thermal mass....its about the same.
In the end it is another power adder. Here is the link of the test, acceleration nearly matches his 7 psi roots blower.
http://wildweasel.ca/HowTo/Auto/eturboTest.aspx