**The Ricardo Engine: A Groundbreaking Technology**

Once the light turns green, you'll feel as you put your foot on the accelerator that torque, and you'll feel it very quickly. Yeah, this feels like a two or three liter engine to me. I can't tell how tiny this is. Like we said before, starter generators or starter alternators are nothing new; they've been around for years and years. I've got a 195 Franklin, and that's got a starter generator – it turns on and spins, and as soon as the engine starts, it converts to a generator. So, it's proven technology. It's out there, and it's available in the market. It's just how do you combine that technology? Can feel that supercharger when you push on the accelerator that's great. Wow, that got a little feel that yeah, you feel it. Question is, why not just put a battery back there instead of a super capacitor? Well, at the time we were doing this program, we were originally the concept was to try to keep it in a 12-volt range, but 12 volts wasn't enough right, and so in this case, um, we did a study at that time on advanced lead acid, and looking at maybe a supplementary battery instead. But super capacitors just worked better for this; floating voltage works better. That's why I say that in the future though, it is all headed towards 48-volt, 48-volt advanced lead acid or 48-volt lithium-ion.

**The Experience of Driving the Engine**

How's it feel to you when you're driving it? Good. Let's see and you put your foot in it and there you go. Alright, what we're going to do now is we're going to shut off the supercharge and just show you what this car would be like without it. Without it. Go ahead. Okay, so what you need to do is you need to drop down to about uh try to slow the vehicle down get down to third gear 1,000 RPMs more or less all right. Tell me when you're around there. I'm at 12,200 RPM. Okay, ready. So, I'm going to shut it off now. Try to go. Oh boy, this thing is it's a dog. See the difference? It takes a while for the turbo to spool up. Right? It takes a while for Turbo and that's the technology; you know anybody who's driven an early Porsche Turbo knows what he's talking about.

**The Technology Behind the Supercharger**

Let's turn it back on want my power back, I know you do. Okay, the way it's working is we're putting 6 kilowatts back in. We're taking four out, so you're what you're saying is the supercharger shuts off at around 5,500 RPM something like yeah. It comes in about 200 milliseconds and lasts for about 2 and a half seconds, 3 seconds. Just long enough to allow right the turbo to come in at around 5,500 RPM. Almost seems like like something would be tough to patent because people could say oh we've known that for years; just nobody's incorporated it. I think the trick is the software blend it's how to make all of those components work together and uh you know this project was a 4-year project. Yeah, so it wasn't an overnight thing. Could adapt this to a 2-liter engine and get even more power? Yes, you could. And um there are some interesting performance-enhancing options as well for people in motorsport.

**Collaboration with McLaren**

Let's say, and that's basically the thinking behind the P1 isn't it now you guys build the V8 for McLaren correct that's correct so we we we worked with McLaren in collaboration and we designed and engineered that's my favorite motor didn't that win motor the year engine of the air? This is not that complex. The software maybe but the componentry not yeah yeah you can tell it was a kit. So, guys could build it themselves. Well, interestingly enough, we are actually looking at those options really well. I want to thank Paul and Tom and Ricardo for coming by with this. I find this kind of stuff really exciting. I like the fact that he said there's even talk of selling this as a kit you could adapt to your own vehicle, and it's really interesting. I mean if if uh um I like the fact that it's can be done inexpensively and it's all technology we all know about already. Anyway, so check out the Ricardo website; they've got some cool stuff on there, and uh when we get the P1, we'll find out more Ricardo stuff too. We got to go; we got to go to England and see how they make that engine.

**Conclusion**

The Ricardo Engine is a groundbreaking technology that combines advanced engineering techniques with proven existing technologies like starter generators and super capacitors. With its unique design and collaboration with McLaren, the P1 is an exciting project that pushes the boundaries of what's possible in automotive engineering. As it continues to evolve, we can expect even more innovative features and technologies to emerge from this partnership.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enstep right up and try your luck here's a new contraption that tells you exactly how many miles you get to the gallon a gas gate that mounts right on the windshield to test gasoline mileage on your car which settles a lot of Gasoline Alley arguments about who gets the most miles on a gallon now when your neighbor says he can outrun you on a gallon of gasoline you need and find yourself stranded 6 miles from the nearest gas station when you finish up and you can both go along to see that there's no snitching motorists everywhere are trying this new game of checking gasoline mileage and besides settling a lot of arguments they're taking all the guesswork out of gasoline economy now before you turn away this is not another boring hybrid car thing we're going to show you some fascinating technology uh that is Affordable I think this will probably be the future of hybrid let's meet Tom apost Tom come on in you're head of Ricardo North America that what is America is America oh Americas Americas how are you J I'm very good I'm very good now if you're not familiar with this company you guys were behind the P1 as well and Ricardo's been around what about a 100 years right we for the last 100 years Jay we've been uh driving te technology and and developing Innovation that uh pushes boundaries and challenges convention our heritage is powertrain engine transmission and Harry Ricardo was one of the foremost design engineers in the early years with the internal combustion engine and you don't look at much over 40 so I was going to say for 100 appreciate that the company the main problem with hybrids is they're more expensive than gas car correct and you got to drive them for years and years to make up the difference the 10,000 or 20 $15,000 difference this is a totally new kind of hybrid and I I was reading up over the week and uh it's fascinating tell people what we have here we took a a stock Ford Focus 2009 mhm we've downsized the engine from the stock 2 L to a 1.1 L okay see that scares guys right there you take the big engine out you put a little engine in correct but the advantage then we've added a Turbocharger and also an electrically driven supercharger right the one L engine has a Turbocharger and the electrically driven supercharger brings the boost on to make up for their tur turbo lag so the what we're trying to give the driver the vehicle Dynamic of the vehicle feel is that you've got a smaller engine than there but it feels like a very torky py engine that's fun to drive right and the electric supercharger does a way with the hesitation of of of the Boost where correct it it comes in and does what's known as a torque fill and it gives you that immediate transient response which fills that Gap until the mechanical turbocharger spools up right now that's basically what the P1 does in the P1 you have an electric supercharger running off the end of the crank corre so when that turbo lag that millisecond that millisecond of lag is gone on because the supercharger is spinning to help overcome that and that's basically what this does not that this is anyway a miniature P1 but the the thinking is the same is it by downsizing the engine and boosting it drive some economy improved environmental efficiency in terms of emissions and also again let the package be a fun fun vehicle to drive for the yeah the part I found interesting was it comes out to about $1,100 per vehicle yeah so it's an $1,100 on cost over the original which to me I think cuz so many hybrids or even Alternatives like hydrogen well once you get past the initial $50,000 okay well thank you now it's just not usable and uh there's no plugin right so it's all self- sustaining correct so it's basically a gasoline car that uses electricity to augment and creates its own electricity exactly all right well let's bring in Paul Paul Rivera you're the what what is your title hi Jay thanks I'm the global director Global director you're just America hybrids electrification just the Americas all right okay so you're going to you handle the rest of the world yes that's true good thank you very much for having Tom and I here we appr well good good all right now Paul you going to take over for us yeah I'll show you the technology than you appreciate it thank you very much okay what we have here is a 2009 it's a 2009 Ford Focus okay it's right hand drive cuz it's coming from from the UK okay and I'm going to show you the technology underneath the hood first and then we also look under the under the back as well right now is this uh pretty much what a finished car would look like or is this just sort of no this is just for demonstration purposes right now see what we got okay once again no one has improved on the stick ladies and gentlemen as you can see you can electric Hybrid gas hydren nobody beats the stick all right okay so Jay just to repeat what we've done here we've taken a 2 L Ford doortech engine out of the vehicle okay and that engine put off about 169 gr of carbon okay of CO2 excuse me and in in that engine uh you would get about 32 m per gallon is what you would get we've downsized the engine it's a 1 lit Ford engine it's in here now and typically you would just have the air flow right into the turbocharger okay the mechanical turbocharger right but as you know it takes time for the mechanical turbocharger to sco so what we've done here is we have this Y and we have this valve here the valve closes we force the air back through the back and if you could come around here Jay and you look down here you can see that there's an electric supercharger down here the electric supercharger acts instantaneously almost instantaneously 200 milliseconds so the minute you put your foot on the pedal boom it's there right so that's forcing air to the turbocharger correct that's fooling the turbocharger into thinking that the engine is revving at 5 or 6,000 hour exactly and it that's where you get the torque fill and then it it comes on for about 2 have 3 seconds as soon as as soon as you're spooled up here on the turbocharger then the electric supercharger kicks out is that a big draw all of a sudden uh it is actually draw yeah and that's why because because the electric supercharger a larger draw and because we also have to have a belt starter generator which is down underneath the main pulley here right that's why we needed a little bit more energy on the vehicle so instead of just having the 12vt battery which you see here in the rear of the vehicle which I'll show you we have super capacitors explain what a Capac capacitor is to people who don't know who don't quite understand and it's basically an energy storage right it's storage like it's like another battery exactly okay yep so on this vehicle we we call this a 12 plus X mild hybrid because it's got the 12volt battery and then it has the Super capacitors in the back okay so the way it works is that when the vehicle is running the belt starter generator creates the energy and puts it back into the Super capacitors and then the super capacitor when when you need the energy the super capacitors deliver back to the electric supercharger or back to the BT starter generator okay in this case the electric supercharger is 24 volt runs around 70,000 RPM and um like I said it's instantaneous hits 200 milliseconds you can feel it this car when I pull up the stop light I take my foot off the gas engine dies that's right the engine is a stop start vehicle so the engine will so then okay then a minute I touch the gas it's pretty seamless and kicks but I mean it looks complicated under the hood compared well we'll show you what we're talking about let's go to the back I should just point out that that um Jay Ford Motor Company was very involved in this program with us it's a research and development program that we did with Ford um the first phase was called high boost we also work with CPT and we also worked with valio and Imperial College in London and the reason why I'm pointing this out is because we're now doing a followon program with Ford motor company called Adept and that is looking at 48volt mild hybrids right now well the thing we haven't talked about is you know uh most car companies when they come out with something new they're looking for a 1% fuel Improvement 3% 8% would be unbelievable this is what 4 47% 47% increase in fuel economy let's take a look take at the back come on okay so like I said to you typically you wouldn't see it packaged like this it would be packaged we would use the real estate of the vehicle it would be packaged nicely but for the purpose of demonstrating we wanted to be able to lay it out so everybody could see so you have the super capacitor bank here right okay and you have a DC todc converter right there so what happens is the belt starter generator puts the energy into the Super caps and the super caps are either the super capacitors and the super capacitors are either running the belt starter generator or the electric supercharger D question does this make heat does this get warm it it does get warm but it's very little right right it's very little this is all proven technology there's no breakthrough stuff here right you got capacitor that's correct right I mean so these are all existing equipment there's nothing experimental here it's just that's the beauty of it the the supply chain as we say is mature want to drive it yeah let's take it for a spin and what is the horsepower with the system off so so it's 143 horsepower at 5500 RPMs okay and the base vehicle yeah the base vehicle was 145 horsepower at 6,000 RPM so so J we very close to matching the base horsepower same 0 to 60 time we could do it in 9.2 seconds for this vehicle and but but the torque is better so the torque on the base vehicle was 185 Newt M at around 4,000 RPMs and this is 240 Newton M at 3500 RPMs well we go foot-pounds here but newton meters that's right newton meters to American sounds like some kind of cookie oh it's got a fig in it it's a little meter thing Newton Newton meter they're delicious you're driving a vehicle that gets 55 to 60 mil per gallon right right it's amazing and on and look we're two good-sized guys yeah and we've had four people in here before and it still has a lot of Pep and you feel you feel like it's still fun to drive you're not giving up that performance I know you're excited about getting your P1 yeah and uh you know Ricardo was instrumental in working with McLaren to develop the battery management system for the P1 right well even the P1 using uh the hybrid technology gets 34 m per gallon incredible unbelievable unbelievable if a new technology to succeed it can't be equal it's got to be better and it's like when the wankle came out everybody thought oh that's going to be the great savior it's lightweight it beens yeah but the mileage wasn't as good or even comparable so consequently ultimately it failed you know you it's got to beat it in every uh every part of the program like at this it's $1,100 so it's cheaper it gets better mileage I don't see any downside to it it's no this is where it's headed and you can feel the vehicle comes the vehicle turns off when you're at a stop light right and then once the light turns green you'll feel as you put your foot on the accelerator you you will feel that torque feel you will feel it very quickly yeah this feels like a two or three ler engine to me I can't I can't tell how tiny this is and like we said before starter generators or starter alternators are nothing new they've been around for years and years I've got a 195 Franklin and that's got to start a generator you turn and it spins and as soon as it uh as soon as it the engine starts it converts to a generator so it's proven techy it's out there it's available right now in the market it's just how do you combine that Tech you can feel that supercharger when when you push on the accelerator that's great wow W that got a little feel that yeah you feel it question why not just put a battery back there as opposed to a super capacitor well at the time that we were doing this program we were originally the concept was to try to keep it in a 12vt range but 12 volts wasn't enough right and so in this case um we we did a study at that time on Advanced Le acid and and looking at maybe a supplementary battery and inste but super capacitors just worked better for this the floating voltage works better right right but that's I I that's why I say that in the future though it is all headed towards 48 volt 48 volt Advanced lead acid or 48 volt lithium ion how's it feel to you when you're driving it good let's see and you put your foot in it and there you go all right what we're going to do now is we're going to shut off the supercharge and just show you what this car would be like without it without it go ahead okay so what you need to do is you need to drop down to about uh try to slow the vehicle down get down to third gear 1,00 RPMs more or less all right tell me when you're around there okay I'm at uh 12200 RPM okay ready so I'm going to shut it off now try to go oh boy this thing is it's a dog see the difference it takes a while for the turbo to spool up right it takes a while for Turbo and that's the that's the technology the you know anybody that's drove an early Porsche Turbo knows what he's talking about all right let's turn it back on want my power back I know you do okay the way it's working is we're putting 6 kilowatt back in okay and we're taking four out so you're what you're saying is the uh supercharger shuts off at what 5,500 RPM something like yeah it's it's for it comes in about 200 milliseconds and it lasts for about about 2 and a half seconds 3 seconds just long enough to allow right the turbo to come in at around 5,500 RP it almost seems like like something would be tough to patent because people could say oh we've known that for years it just nobody's Incorporated it I think the trick is the software blend it's how to make all of those components work together and uh you know this this project Jay was a 4year project yeah so it wasn't an overnight could could you adapt this to a 2 L engine and get even more power yes you could you could do that and um there there's some interesting let's say performance enhancing options as well for people in in Motorsport let's say and that's basically the thinking behind the P1 isn't it now you guys build the V8 for McLaren correct that's correct so we we we worked with McLaren in collaboration and we designed and engineered that's my favorite motor didn't that win motor the year engine of the airless this is not that complex the software maybe but the componentry not yeah yeah you know you can tell it was a kit so guys could build it themselves well interestingly enough we are actually uh looking at those those options really well I want to thank Paul and Tom and Ricardo for coming by with this I find this kind of stuff really exciting I like the fact that he said there's even talk of selling this as a kit you could adapt to your own vehicle and uh it's really interesting I mean if if uh um I like the fact that it's can be done inexpensively and it's all technology we all know about already anyway so check out the Ricardo website they've got some cool stuff on there and uh when we get the P1 we'll we'll find out some more Ricardo stuff too we got to go we got to go to England and see how they make that engine and thanks Jay thanks for having Tom and I we really appreciate thanks a lot appreciate thanks so much check it out this is cool stuff astep right up and try your luck here's a new contraption that tells you exactly how many miles you get to the gallon a gas gate that mounts right on the windshield to test gasoline mileage on your car which settles a lot of Gasoline Alley arguments about who gets the most miles on a gallon now when your neighbor says he can outrun you on a gallon of gasoline you need and find yourself stranded 6 miles from the nearest gas station when you finish up and you can both go along to see that there's no snitching motorists everywhere are trying this new game of checking gasoline mileage and besides settling a lot of arguments they're taking all the guesswork out of gasoline economy now before you turn away this is not another boring hybrid car thing we're going to show you some fascinating technology uh that is Affordable I think this will probably be the future of hybrid let's meet Tom apost Tom come on in you're head of Ricardo North America that what is America is America oh Americas Americas how are you J I'm very good I'm very good now if you're not familiar with this company you guys were behind the P1 as well and Ricardo's been around what about a 100 years right we for the last 100 years Jay we've been uh driving te technology and and developing Innovation that uh pushes boundaries and challenges convention our heritage is powertrain engine transmission and Harry Ricardo was one of the foremost design engineers in the early years with the internal combustion engine and you don't look at much over 40 so I was going to say for 100 appreciate that the company the main problem with hybrids is they're more expensive than gas car correct and you got to drive them for years and years to make up the difference the 10,000 or 20 $15,000 difference this is a totally new kind of hybrid and I I was reading up over the week and uh it's fascinating tell people what we have here we took a a stock Ford Focus 2009 mhm we've downsized the engine from the stock 2 L to a 1.1 L okay see that scares guys right there you take the big engine out you put a little engine in correct but the advantage then we've added a Turbocharger and also an electrically driven supercharger right the one L engine has a Turbocharger and the electrically driven supercharger brings the boost on to make up for their tur turbo lag so the what we're trying to give the driver the vehicle Dynamic of the vehicle feel is that you've got a smaller engine than there but it feels like a very torky py engine that's fun to drive right and the electric supercharger does a way with the hesitation of of of the Boost where correct it it comes in and does what's known as a torque fill and it gives you that immediate transient response which fills that Gap until the mechanical turbocharger spools up right now that's basically what the P1 does in the P1 you have an electric supercharger running off the end of the crank corre so when that turbo lag that millisecond that millisecond of lag is gone on because the supercharger is spinning to help overcome that and that's basically what this does not that this is anyway a miniature P1 but the the thinking is the same is it by downsizing the engine and boosting it drive some economy improved environmental efficiency in terms of emissions and also again let the package be a fun fun vehicle to drive for the yeah the part I found interesting was it comes out to about $1,100 per vehicle yeah so it's an $1,100 on cost over the original which to me I think cuz so many hybrids or even Alternatives like hydrogen well once you get past the initial $50,000 okay well thank you now it's just not usable and uh there's no plugin right so it's all self- sustaining correct so it's basically a gasoline car that uses electricity to augment and creates its own electricity exactly all right well let's bring in Paul Paul Rivera you're the what what is your title hi Jay thanks I'm the global director Global director you're just America hybrids electrification just the Americas all right okay so you're going to you handle the rest of the world yes that's true good thank you very much for having Tom and I here we appr well good good all right now Paul you going to take over for us yeah I'll show you the technology than you appreciate it thank you very much okay what we have here is a 2009 it's a 2009 Ford Focus okay it's right hand drive cuz it's coming from from the UK okay and I'm going to show you the technology underneath the hood first and then we also look under the under the back as well right now is this uh pretty much what a finished car would look like or is this just sort of no this is just for demonstration purposes right now see what we got okay once again no one has improved on the stick ladies and gentlemen as you can see you can electric Hybrid gas hydren nobody beats the stick all right okay so Jay just to repeat what we've done here we've taken a 2 L Ford doortech engine out of the vehicle okay and that engine put off about 169 gr of carbon okay of CO2 excuse me and in in that engine uh you would get about 32 m per gallon is what you would get we've downsized the engine it's a 1 lit Ford engine it's in here now and typically you would just have the air flow right into the turbocharger okay the mechanical turbocharger right but as you know it takes time for the mechanical turbocharger to sco so what we've done here is we have this Y and we have this valve here the valve closes we force the air back through the back and if you could come around here Jay and you look down here you can see that there's an electric supercharger down here the electric supercharger acts instantaneously almost instantaneously 200 milliseconds so the minute you put your foot on the pedal boom it's there right so that's forcing air to the turbocharger correct that's fooling the turbocharger into thinking that the engine is revving at 5 or 6,000 hour exactly and it that's where you get the torque fill and then it it comes on for about 2 have 3 seconds as soon as as soon as you're spooled up here on the turbocharger then the electric supercharger kicks out is that a big draw all of a sudden uh it is actually draw yeah and that's why because because the electric supercharger a larger draw and because we also have to have a belt starter generator which is down underneath the main pulley here right that's why we needed a little bit more energy on the vehicle so instead of just having the 12vt battery which you see here in the rear of the vehicle which I'll show you we have super capacitors explain what a Capac capacitor is to people who don't know who don't quite understand and it's basically an energy storage right it's storage like it's like another battery exactly okay yep so on this vehicle we we call this a 12 plus X mild hybrid because it's got the 12volt battery and then it has the Super capacitors in the back okay so the way it works is that when the vehicle is running the belt starter generator creates the energy and puts it back into the Super capacitors and then the super capacitor when when you need the energy the super capacitors deliver back to the electric supercharger or back to the BT starter generator okay in this case the electric supercharger is 24 volt runs around 70,000 RPM and um like I said it's instantaneous hits 200 milliseconds you can feel it this car when I pull up the stop light I take my foot off the gas engine dies that's right the engine is a stop start vehicle so the engine will so then okay then a minute I touch the gas it's pretty seamless and kicks but I mean it looks complicated under the hood compared well we'll show you what we're talking about let's go to the back I should just point out that that um Jay Ford Motor Company was very involved in this program with us it's a research and development program that we did with Ford um the first phase was called high boost we also work with CPT and we also worked with valio and Imperial College in London and the reason why I'm pointing this out is because we're now doing a followon program with Ford motor company called Adept and that is looking at 48volt mild hybrids right now well the thing we haven't talked about is you know uh most car companies when they come out with something new they're looking for a 1% fuel Improvement 3% 8% would be unbelievable this is what 4 47% 47% increase in fuel economy let's take a look take at the back come on okay so like I said to you typically you wouldn't see it packaged like this it would be packaged we would use the real estate of the vehicle it would be packaged nicely but for the purpose of demonstrating we wanted to be able to lay it out so everybody could see so you have the super capacitor bank here right okay and you have a DC todc converter right there so what happens is the belt starter generator puts the energy into the Super caps and the super caps are either the super capacitors and the super capacitors are either running the belt starter generator or the electric supercharger D question does this make heat does this get warm it it does get warm but it's very little right right it's very little this is all proven technology there's no breakthrough stuff here right you got capacitor that's correct right I mean so these are all existing equipment there's nothing experimental here it's just that's the beauty of it the the supply chain as we say is mature want to drive it yeah let's take it for a spin and what is the horsepower with the system off so so it's 143 horsepower at 5500 RPMs okay and the base vehicle yeah the base vehicle was 145 horsepower at 6,000 RPM so so J we very close to matching the base horsepower same 0 to 60 time we could do it in 9.2 seconds for this vehicle and but but the torque is better so the torque on the base vehicle was 185 Newt M at around 4,000 RPMs and this is 240 Newton M at 3500 RPMs well we go foot-pounds here but newton meters that's right newton meters to American sounds like some kind of cookie oh it's got a fig in it it's a little meter thing Newton Newton meter they're delicious you're driving a vehicle that gets 55 to 60 mil per gallon right right it's amazing and on and look we're two good-sized guys yeah and we've had four people in here before and it still has a lot of Pep and you feel you feel like it's still fun to drive you're not giving up that performance I know you're excited about getting your P1 yeah and uh you know Ricardo was instrumental in working with McLaren to develop the battery management system for the P1 right well even the P1 using uh the hybrid technology gets 34 m per gallon incredible unbelievable unbelievable if a new technology to succeed it can't be equal it's got to be better and it's like when the wankle came out everybody thought oh that's going to be the great savior it's lightweight it beens yeah but the mileage wasn't as good or even comparable so consequently ultimately it failed you know you it's got to beat it in every uh every part of the program like at this it's $1,100 so it's cheaper it gets better mileage I don't see any downside to it it's no this is where it's headed and you can feel the vehicle comes the vehicle turns off when you're at a stop light right and then once the light turns green you'll feel as you put your foot on the accelerator you you will feel that torque feel you will feel it very quickly yeah this feels like a two or three ler engine to me I can't I can't tell how tiny this is and like we said before starter generators or starter alternators are nothing new they've been around for years and years I've got a 195 Franklin and that's got to start a generator you turn and it spins and as soon as it uh as soon as it the engine starts it converts to a generator so it's proven techy it's out there it's available right now in the market it's just how do you combine that Tech you can feel that supercharger when when you push on the accelerator that's great wow W that got a little feel that yeah you feel it question why not just put a battery back there as opposed to a super capacitor well at the time that we were doing this program we were originally the concept was to try to keep it in a 12vt range but 12 volts wasn't enough right and so in this case um we we did a study at that time on Advanced Le acid and and looking at maybe a supplementary battery and inste but super capacitors just worked better for this the floating voltage works better right right but that's I I that's why I say that in the future though it is all headed towards 48 volt 48 volt Advanced lead acid or 48 volt lithium ion how's it feel to you when you're driving it good let's see and you put your foot in it and there you go all right what we're going to do now is we're going to shut off the supercharge and just show you what this car would be like without it without it go ahead okay so what you need to do is you need to drop down to about uh try to slow the vehicle down get down to third gear 1,00 RPMs more or less all right tell me when you're around there okay I'm at uh 12200 RPM okay ready so I'm going to shut it off now try to go oh boy this thing is it's a dog see the difference it takes a while for the turbo to spool up right it takes a while for Turbo and that's the that's the technology the you know anybody that's drove an early Porsche Turbo knows what he's talking about all right let's turn it back on want my power back I know you do okay the way it's working is we're putting 6 kilowatt back in okay and we're taking four out so you're what you're saying is the uh supercharger shuts off at what 5,500 RPM something like yeah it's it's for it comes in about 200 milliseconds and it lasts for about about 2 and a half seconds 3 seconds just long enough to allow right the turbo to come in at around 5,500 RP it almost seems like like something would be tough to patent because people could say oh we've known that for years it just nobody's Incorporated it I think the trick is the software blend it's how to make all of those components work together and uh you know this this project Jay was a 4year project yeah so it wasn't an overnight could could you adapt this to a 2 L engine and get even more power yes you could you could do that and um there there's some interesting let's say performance enhancing options as well for people in in Motorsport let's say and that's basically the thinking behind the P1 isn't it now you guys build the V8 for McLaren correct that's correct so we we we worked with McLaren in collaboration and we designed and engineered that's my favorite motor didn't that win motor the year engine of the airless this is not that complex the software maybe but the componentry not yeah yeah you know you can tell it was a kit so guys could build it themselves well interestingly enough we are actually uh looking at those those options really well I want to thank Paul and Tom and Ricardo for coming by with this I find this kind of stuff really exciting I like the fact that he said there's even talk of selling this as a kit you could adapt to your own vehicle and uh it's really interesting I mean if if uh um I like the fact that it's can be done inexpensively and it's all technology we all know about already anyway so check out the Ricardo website they've got some cool stuff on there and uh when we get the P1 we'll we'll find out some more Ricardo stuff too we got to go we got to go to England and see how they make that engine and thanks Jay thanks for having Tom and I we really appreciate thanks a lot appreciate thanks so much check it out this is cool stuff a\n"