This story appears in the March 14 print edition of Transport Topics. Truck and engine maker Navistar Inc. has taken a new tack in its drive to offer new motors, joining a company that had developed a ...
Opposed-piston engine technology has been touted as a possible alternative to conventional engine designs for years. Now, opposed-piston engine developer Achates Power reports that its 10.6L ...
Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group, a collaborative forum to advance sustainable transportation ...
1. EcoMotors is developing high-efficiency engines — specifically the unique opoc (Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder) engine — for use in cars, light trucks, marine applications, agricultural vehicles, ...
Achates Power and Aramco Services recently announced they will put a Ford F-150 on the road with a novel opposed piston engine under the hood, hoping to prove this exotic engine design is the future ...
Horizontally-opposed engines are often referred to as "boxer" engines because the motion of the pistons sort of resembles a boxer, punching. Really, though, if any engine should be named for a boxer, ...
DETROIT –While Tesla, General Motors, Nissan, BMW and other automakers doggedly push to bring battery-powered vehicles into the mainstream, Achates Power engineers are betting that an old technology ...
Ferrari continues to explore hydrogen-powered drivetrain solutions, patent documents discovered by AutoGuide.com indicate Ferrari is looking at a two-stroke 3- or 6-cylinder opposed piston engine ...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Achates Power, a developer of radically improved internal combustion engines that increase fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and are lower cost, ...
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The most complicated new engine has three cylinders, a rotating block, a stationary head, and is shaped like a circle
Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...
Bill Wong saw some interesting things at the Military Vehicles Exhibition and Conference (MVEC) including a quad opposed piston engine and a modular, off-road vehicle that can hit 120 mph using active ...
Sandia National Laboratory led by Sandia researcher Peter Van Blarigan that has been testing physical components of free-piston engines which could be 50% efficient. This is about twice as good as ...
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