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Originally Posted by Ecky
Or, directly assist the engine with that electricity. Electric torque is 100% from 0rpm, don't even need to spin the engine.
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I remember seeing their plans to capture the remaining energy post turbo in their large diesel engines as they realized there was still much remaining energy in the exhaust stream. A large turbo electric generator drove an electric motor with about 50 hp rating. It wasn't much on a 500 hp diesel engine but it did recover some of that wasted energy. I don't remember them using a battery storage bank, just a smoothing capacitance. For all intents and purposes, it was a direct energy to the crank scheme. I'm not sure what happened to the project.