A diesel-electric hybrid helicopter using Ecomotors OPOC engines is a concept project grouped under the name of eCO2avia by EADS Innovation Works. Highly efficient electrical motors driving the rotors ...

Throughout the history of the internal combustion engine there have been a multitude of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs shouting claims about revolutionary new engine designs promising greater ...

A new engine that could make cars up to 50 percent more efficient has been described as "promising technology" by Bill Gates, and is now set to power its first vehicle thanks to an investment from the ...

Navistar International Corporation today announced it has reached a development agreement with EcoMotors International in support of the company’s opoc (Opposed-Piston, Opposed-Cylinder) engine ...

EcoMotors announced today a $23.5 million series B funding round from Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates that the company will use to build and test its eco-friendly engine, known as an Opposed Piston ...

DETROIT - One of China's largest auto parts makers said it will construct a $200-million factory to build a radical new engine developed by a suburban Detroit startup. Zhongding Power would be the ...

Conventional wisdom suggests that our faithful internal combustion (IC) engines are heading the way of the buggy whip. The lithium-ion battery has arrived, emissions standards are tightening, and ...

REMEMBER those wailing banshee motorcycles with plumes of acrid blue smoke billowing behind them? Your correspondent came of age astride one. But few two-stroke engines survived the draconian ...

Thanks to generous support from a foreign backer, there is renewed hope for an American attempt to revolutionize, modernize and sanitize the automobile engine. The catch? The finished product will be ...

The Opoc internal combustion engine design, which can improve fuel economy by up to 50 percent, attracts $23.5 million in funding from Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Allen Park-based EcoMotors International and Warrenville, Ill.-based Navistar International Corp. announced a development agreement in support of EcoMotors' OPOC (Opposed Piston, Opposed Cylinder) ...