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Lotus: Omnivore engine is 10% more efficient with more to come

Last March at the Geneva Motor Show, Lotus announced its new Omnivore research engine. The Omnivore is a two-stroke direct-injected engine designed to take advantage of the latest in electronic engine management and run on just about any liquid fuel (hence the name). In the time since the initial announcement, the boffins at Lotus Engineering have been exercising their creation on the dyno stand to evaluate its performance. The single-cylinder engine uses an air-assisted direct injection system. A movable "puck" in the top of the cylinder ... Read more →

We take a quick spin in GM's latest HCCI engine prototype Sam Abuelsamid

Since our first encounter with General Motors' HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) engines in August 2007, the powertrain research engineers at GM's Tech Center in Warren, MI have ...

MIT researchers say HCCI cleaner, more efficient engine Chris Tutor

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Lotus: Omnivore engine is 10% more efficient with more to come 14 days ago on Autoblog

We take a quick spin in GM's latest HCCI engine prototype 7 months ago on Autoblog

Since our first encounter with General Motors' HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) engines in August 2007, the powertrain research engineers at GM's Tech Center in Warren, MI have continued plugging away at the technology, trying to turn it into a marketable reality. The basic premise of ...

MIT researchers say HCCI cleaner, more efficient engine 2 years ago on Autoblog

We're not gonna try to explain all the physics involved in this new engine design. That's for all you Autoblog readers with engineering degrees to do in the comments. But, from what we understand, MIT researchers have taken a long hard look at an engine design called homogeneous charge compression ...

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