12-01-2012, 08:44 PM
From Mark's quote above:
"The really clever part though is that I've read they're going to do away with the wastegate and instead, use the motor as a generator to recover excess energy while keeping the turbo from over-boosting. The real engineering feat in all that, I'm sure, was to make all the bits withstand the heat involved."
Also has the nifty side effect of removing a lot of the previously necessary wiring, since generation is done in-house as well.
"The really clever part though is that I've read they're going to do away with the wastegate and instead, use the motor as a generator to recover excess energy while keeping the turbo from over-boosting. The real engineering feat in all that, I'm sure, was to make all the bits withstand the heat involved."
Also has the nifty side effect of removing a lot of the previously necessary wiring, since generation is done in-house as well.