By Andrea Quong, June 15, 2007
Alternatively powered cars are hot, but Nevis Engine Company isn’t ready to give up on the dowdy—and dirty—internal combustion engine.
The Italian startup, which said Thursday it raised seed funding, aims to reinvent the hundred-year-old engine with new technology it claims can nearly double the fuel efficiency of conventional engines and reduce emissions …
… [M]aking the internal combustion engine to be ultra-efficient—and thus less gas-guzzling and polluting—is Sisyphean task that no one has yet been able to accomplish. Aside from the sheer cost of developing and testing a new engine, there are innumerable potential project-killers—everything from safety issues to reliability factors.
Venrock-backed Transonic Combustion in Camarillo, California, and the West Springfield, Massachusetts-based Scuderi Group are also working to improve upon conventional engines.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI