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04.08.2018

The Italian company Ferrari has registered with the European Patent Office an application for an electrically supercharged internal combustion engine of a rather unusual design.

Electric supercharging is currently used in some Audi and Mercedes-Benz engines, but only in combination with a traditional turbocharger. The Italians, on the other hand, came up with a completely new design, the analogues of which still do not exist. A turbine wheel is built into the exhaust path of this motor, but it does not have a mechanical connection with the compressor and rotates only a generator that generates electricity.

The electricity is stored in the battery and used both to drive the traction motor that turns the car's wheels and to power the electrically driven turbocharger that pumps air into the engine.

Ferrari hopes in such an extraordinary way, if possible, to reduce the delays traditional for conventional turbines in response to pressing the gas pedal.

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