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Use of a Low-Cost Electric Supercharger Could Significantly Reduce Smoke from Turbocharged Diesel Engines

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Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is a UK startup working with switched reluctance motor technology to deliver cost-effective CO 2 -reducing solutions for vehicles. Fully integrated VTES unit. Click to enlarge.

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CPT developing 48-volt electric supercharger for micro-mild hybrids

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The company has commissioned AVL to build the demonstrator, which is currently undergoing final shake-down trials in Austria in readiness for evaluation by vehicle manufacturers. CPT’s production-ready VTES technology has already been incorporated as a 12 volt system in its LC Super Hybrid technology demonstrator.

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