Hybrid-electric vehicles : design and application of ECSC - an automotive energy savings device

The design and application of an electronically coupled super charger (ECSC), an automotive energy savings device, is reviewed and investigated. The concept is founded on the operational ideas of hybridelectric vehicles. ECSC extends these ideas to affect the thermodynamic principles of the internal combustion engine (ICE). The concepts and methods of design of ECSC as well as the technological barriers that have prevented any such device fully being made commercially are explored and discussed. The ECSC, in a development of the principles set out here, may form a useful part of future automobiles.