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by brc 5011 days ago
'air charge' is a specific term meaning the air entering the combustion chamber.

So 'supercharge' is a term for 'bigger air charge'.

However, when you deconstruct it, it is a bit silly. I dislike the addition of 'super' to things anyway, it's a very lazy way of coining a term.

Maybe we should all just adopt Kompressor like the Germans. And leave supercharge, supercharger and supercharged for the marketing folk to devalue to oblivion.

Edit : I just thought of a much better name. Who wouldn't want to connect up their Tesla to the ... wait for it..:

Warpcharger

Yeah, Warpcharger stations. Much cooler, and probably able to be trademarked as well.

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> Warpcharger

Nope, we'll need that after SpaceX develops FTL drives.