Re: yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger"Right and wrong.  A
turbocharger is a supercharger, however, it gets it name from the fact that
it uses a turbine to spin the compressor.  The turbine is spun via exhaust
gases.

Cheers,

Jeff

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of
Andrew Grebneff
  Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:22 AM
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
  Subject: Re: yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger"

    Turbos can be driven by exhaust (almost all), belt (Paxton) or electric
motor (as VW was paying Mitsubishi to research in the 90s).

  Turbos in their early days (WW2) were called turbosuperchargers.
Unfortunately, with the contraction to turbocharger, it's "outta sight,
outta mind"... take super out and soon people forget that it IS a
supercharger.