I've seen them for about 2 years now and was wondering what you guys think of them. Do they make any power? Just wondering

 

Don't even consider buying one.....
do a search and you will find ALOT of negative info on these setups....

 

Oh great, not this again.

 

I still get email updates from the guy that was selling them on ebay. One day sure, but for now, not worth the investment on something that has not been proven reliable. The guy has made some very good advances and is on to something, but without big money back up and buy in, it's gonna be a while. Think about this though....A Honda Hybrid with one of those running 13's or better.

 

The problem (for us) with electric blowers is displacement. They can be made to work on 4-cylinders because the airflow requirement is less. But on V8s, if you calculate the required airflow and figure the most efficient electric blower design, you need like hundreds of amps of power to run the blower. I guess you could try to strap 3 or 4 alternators on an engine...

 

 

i have seen units on diesel semi trucks, the air needed in one of those monsters is rediculous, diesels move some air. Ones i saw in use were 3 9hp electric motors combined through some gearing and it looked like a large turbo was bolted onto it. Neat technology but the intial cost for a street truck seems rather high. And the power draw of the electric motors is very high. I would like to see some energy recycling vehicles. They now have hydraulic pumps connected to the braking systems on vehicles, when a vehicle applys its brakes a clutch engages a pump at each wheel, the pumps store the high pressure fluid in a reserve tank that is then released upon acceleration into hydraulic motor. Because this uses no fuel whatsoever just your braking force to power it im sure we will see this technology soon. Inititial testing of it had vehicles doing 0-60 times in under 6 seconds. and that was in very low hp vehicles.