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For the confused: this article is about electrically-driven pre-compressors ("turbochargers") rather than the Tesla electric battery fast-charge EV station and service.



The canonical use of the term "supercharger" in the automotive context is to describe a compressor that is driven directly from a reciprocating engine's drive output. They date back to the very late 1800s and early 1900s in various applications on internal combustion engines, and made it in to production automobile engines in the 20s.

A turbocharger, by contrast, uses waste exhaust energy to drive a compressor. A turbocharger is actually considered a type of supercharger. The full name -- although rarely used -- is actually turbosupercharger.

Not to detract from your clarification, but I think it's important that any interested readers understand that Tesla hijacked the term to describe their electric charging stations.




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