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'Boost Hybrid' system one-third cost of regular hybrid powertrains

To convince naysayers and an increasingly skeptical public about hybrids, automakers from Subaru Motors, Suzuki Motor Corp., to the hybrid "powerhouse" Toyota, are scrambling to develop a low-cost version of the technology. U.K. developers Integral Powertrain and NexxtDrive are currently testing one such system. Called the SuperGen i-Hybrid, the system seems to combine a super-charger with electric motors: The core of the SuperGen technology is a unit connected by belt to the engine crankshaft, which contains a compressor, two electric ... Read more →

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