What is Supergen product (automotive)

[treez]

http://www.supergen.co.uk/

Does anybody know what it is?....as far as i can see, its like an alternator and is for charging up the 12V battery in petrol engine cars?
The website doesnt say why its better than an alternator at doing this?

 

[dick_freebird]

If you look at the "Technology" page it purports to be an
integrated alternator / supercharger and they blabber on
in vague terms about enabling stop-start and low power
"hybrid" operation so presumably it is supposed to throw
mechanical power back to the crankshaft via the belt.

Which belt, in the drawings, looks woefully undersized for
both supercharger and power transmission duty. It's shown
as a pretty standard accessory belt. Superchargers of any
usefulness (let alone high performance) are much larger
and their belts more stout. The impeller is tiny and so is
its ducting. It appears there is a planetary drive (the large
cylindrical center section) to increase impeller speed from
the pulley speed. The "hybrid assist" would use the electric
windings as a motor. A weak one (but they only talk about
4-6kW, or maybe 10HP (for us Amurricans).

To me it looks like a joke with negligible ability to scale to
useful (let alone entertaining) power levels. But I likes
me some hundreds of kW and a whole lot of stank out
the back.

 

[treez]

A friend of mine's Father was thinking of investing in the Supergen product/company.......but i am not at all sure if this is not some kind of bluff application that somebody has developed into a project in order to gain lucrative EU funding grants?

In the UK, we pay 19 billion pounds per year to the EU...but 9 billion pounds is "given back" to the UK, and UK engineering companys can apply for lumps of this money if they can come up with a technical sounding project.

I am just wondering if this is some kind of attempt to get this EU funding money without having a genuine product behind it? DickFreeBird your kindly supplied comments kind of tally up with this.

Just being honest, i've read their entire website and this product looks like a joke(?), just like Dick FreeBird said

 

[dick_freebird]

The web pages do have the "aroma" of what over here,
is "pre-IPO" venture-capital-soliciting phase. If you
look closely at the images with a critical eye, they all
seem to be high quality CAD drawings. If I can't see a
real photo of a real article I always conclude there isn't
one to show. And if I was going to invest -my- money I'd
want to walk up and rap the case with a wrench, and
for that matter see one run as purported, in person.

Another clue is that they talk a lot but in very general
terms about why something of this sort is "needed" but
can not articulate a single -quantitative- and -specific-
benefit that they have demonstrated. Yeah, yeah, it's
going to "enable" this and that. Everybody's "enabling".
"Doing", let alone "Did", that's hen's teeth.