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) ...

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 ...

You'll be hearing a lot about the 'OPOC' engine in the next little while, and maybe for a long time to come. Not least because Navistar International announced, during an online press conference this ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

ALLEN PARK -- EcoMotors, developers of the opposed-piston-opposed-cylinder engine, announced a deal with Zhongding Power of Xuancheng, China to build a $200 million plant in Anhui Province. The plant ...

Navistar International announced that it is involved in an agreement with Eco Motors International supporting the development of the latter company’s OPOC—opposed piston, opposed cylinder—engine. The ...

There are only a handful of engineering companies which can brag they have managed to draw both the attention and the money of Bill Gates. Among them, engine manufacturer EcoMotors, a company whose ...

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 ...

The diesel engine, we’ll all agree, is a terrific machine and is likely to be with us for many, many years to come. Will it always run on diesel fuel? Clearly not, at least not exclusively. But what ...