Last month, McLaren Automotive – via the company’s CEO, Mike Flewitt – announced that the company’s next generation of electrified supercars would be underpinned by a brand-new vehicle architecture that is both flexible and lightweight. The new architecture has been designed with the specific purpose of housing hybrid powertrains in mind. It was completely built in-house at McLaren Composites Technology Centre located in the Sheffield region of the UK. McLaren engineers have utilized several new processes and techniques that are not only innovative but firsts across the world. These new processes helped the automaker build a safer chassis that is also more lightweight.

While perusing different vehicles and their specs and features, chances are you’ve come across the words “twin-turbocharged.” If you, like a lot of other people, don’t really know what that means, don’t worry about it! We’ll walk you through what it means for an engine to be twin-turbocharged below.