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"And when it's time to fill the tank, he'll be able to just pull up to the back of a diner and dump in its excess french-fry grease--as he does with his many other Hummers."

That isn't bio diesel, it's grease. Everyone who uses a deep fryer regularly knows how they get gummed up with thick hard baked on grease that results in the deep fryer being tossed into the landfill if it's not cleaned regularly.

The same thing happens inside an engine if this stuff is burned without first being filtered, and put through an esterfication process to remove this goop and convert this deep fryer oil, chicken fat, beef fat, potato starch, and what ever else finds it way into the deep fryer greese, into proper bio diesel that will burn in a diesel engine without destroying it.
See:
making biodiesel

"Conservatively," Goodwin muses, scratching his chin, "it'll get 60 miles to the gallon. With 2,000 foot-pounds of torque. You'll be able to smoke the tires. And it's going to be superefficient."

Uh huh. That will take about a 1000 Hp engine, that gets 60 mpg. (snicker)

Whenever the truck's juice runs low, the turbine will roar into action for a few seconds, powering a generator with such gusto that it'll recharge a set of "supercapacitor" batteries in seconds."

The problem with capacitors, is that the discharge just as fast. Good luck trying to get any amperage out of them. They aren't used as batteries for good reason.

"Is it for real?"

Yep, just like Star trek's star ship voyager...

One of Kruger's systems induces hydrogen into the air intake of a diesel engine, producing a cascade of emissions-reducing and mileage-boosting effects. The hydrogen, ignited by the diesel combustion, burns extremely clean, producing only water as a by-product. It also displaces up to 50% of the diesel needed to fuel the car, effectively doubling the diesel's mileage and cutting emissions by at least half. Better yet, the water produced from the hydrogen combustion cools down the engine, so the diesel combustion generates fewer particulates--and thus fewer nitrogen-oxide emissions.

This is telling. If he replaces half the diesel with hydrogen, then of course he'll only need half as much diesel, giving him twice the mileage per gallon -- if you only count the diesel.

The problem with capacitors, is that the discharge just as fast. Good luck trying to get any amperage out of them. They aren't used as batteries for good reason.

I was going to point that out, but you did a good job!

Ford tried for years to adapt a turbine to cars and trucks, they even produced a couple of large trucks they ran over the road for testing. And they had a car are two. However, they were never able to solve the heat problem, Maybe this guy knows how to keep it from setting the pavement on fire. LOL