Pat Goss on Is a Neo-socket fuel saver effective?

In reading their website I would have to say, no it doesn’t work. It is a capacitor similar to the battery in your car in that it can store very small amounts of electricity. That stored electricity which comes from the electrical system of your car is released back into the electrical system to reduce alternator drag on the engine. Energy cannot be created or destroyed it can only be changed in form so the energy stored in the capacitor is your car’s energy. Because your alternator has to produce the energy for the capacitor it creates drag on the engine then the release of the energy reduces the drag but this is nothing more than creating drag of X then reducing drag by X, in other words this is a wash. Additionally this is a very small capacitor so any electricity it would store is so miniscule relative to the car’s alternator it would make no sense. If it were a capacitor big enough to make a difference it would be physically huge and the amount of current to charge it would would be huge and could not be conducted through the cigarette lighter socket which is rated for five amps. Most cars today have 150 amp or larger alternators so to make a difference in gas mileage you would have to reduce the alternator output by 75 amps or more. A tiny capacitor like the one in the ad would likely store fractions of one amp. Plus any charge into the capacitor came from alternator which caused an engine draw and used fuel to produce it then reduced the draw and saved fuel when it discharged the energy so it uses energy then it saves energy. It appears to be snake oil in its purest form.