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Porsche is doing that on a road car now. It can also act as a generator to limit maximum boost instead of opening a wastegate.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2025-porsche-911-gts-t-hybri...



Audi has been shipping electric compressor for 5 years now. They are prone to failures and they are on second revision now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volkswagen_Group_diese...


That's a different design; Audi uses a separate electric supercharger to fill in boost while waiting for its conventional turbochargers to spool up. Porsche is using a motor/generator built in to a turbocharger to spool it faster, and to recover energy at maximum boost.




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