Over the past 25 years, turbochargers have gone from a relative rarity to a fixture of the new-car buying experience. Where in 2000 only 1% of new cars had the technology, according to the ...

Turbocharged engines may seem like a modern invention, but the progenitors of internal combustion engines have been finding ways to boost the power output of their fossil fuel-burning creations.

Could there exist an engine with a turbocharger capable of deactivation? I explain a concept of an engine with such capabilities, and how it would work. Would it be worth it, and would it save fuel ...