It was installed assimilate a 1.2 liter turbo agent to accompaniment the turbo and after-effects were appealing impressive. The VTES has been positioned as a motor abetment arrangement agnate to the Honda IMA system.
In the Honda IMA system, an electric motor positioned amid the agitation agent and the gearbox provides a addition of ability back needed. The VTES electric supercharger is apparently lighter than an electric motor and can accommodate a agnate addition of torque at low agent RPMs as it is able to bang in absolutely fast – 0 to 700,000rpm in beneath than a third of a second. Like the electric motor, VTES is additionally powered by battery.
The VTES basic is already actuality trialed as a allotment of the addle in assorted systems currently actuality advised by automotive genitalia companies. Ricardo is currently application the VTES in a activity they’ve christened HyBoost. But CPT has a little activity of its own and VTES works as allotment of a arrangement alleged RegEnBoost.
RegEnBoost combines three accessories developed by CPT – the VTES electric supercharger, a liquid-cooled chip amateur architect (start-stop system) alleged SpeedStart, and a turbo-generator alleged TIGERS. TIGERS is somewhat like a turbocharger except it isn’t. It uses bankrupt gas to accomplish electricity instead of accouterment boost, so it’s added of a agent in a way.
The three accessories are chip into a arrangement which additionally incorporates a DC to DC advocate and a advance acerbic array optimised for fast activity accumulator and release. This aforementioned arrangement additionally provides the approved 12V bare by the car’s electrical systems, but additionally delivers abbreviate bursts of ability to the 2kW VTES supercharger back added dispatch is needed. It additionally admiral the SpeedStart amateur back the agent is bare to restart. Conversely, SpeedStart can recharge the array during deceleration. So the array can be answerable by two sources – SpeedStart and the TIGERS bankrupt generator.
CPT claims that a 1.0 liter car with RegEnBoost can afford beneath than 100g/km of CO2 on boilerplate yet action the aforementioned achievement and in-gear dispatch of a 2.0 liter commonly aspirated agent back bare – translated into application and torque that’s about 130 to 150 horses and about 200Nm of torque, appealing appropriate from a 1.0 liter engine. CPT says RegEnBoost can calmly be scaled up to abutment engines of up to 3.5 liters.
