New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency

[Marc]

New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency

A cool new high-efficiency gasoline engine prototype has no radiator, no pistons, no valves, no transmission, and no fluids except for the fuel. At first glance it has a few similarities with the Wankel engine, but is more advanced. The engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles. The efficiency they are claiming is over 3x what today's gasoline engines produce. The developers, a team at Michigan State University, hope to have this engine on the market in the next two to three years.

 

[True Position]

Since it doesn't need a transmission and only works in Hybrid electric vehicles, my money is on it only functioning in a small RPM range or low torque. Good for driving a generator but not actually powering a vehicle.

 

[Marc]

Yup - Sounds like it. None the less it's interesting.

 

[vanputten]

For part of the year, Norbert Mueller lives next to my parent's house in Michigan. Their initial application will be a stationary engine. They plan to apply the design to cars eventually.

 

[vanputten]

Apparently the May 11, 2011 issue of Scientific American will have an article about this engine. The article title is Shock-Wave Auto Engine. Gas-turbine cars go five times farther than piston-powered hybrids.

 

[aliasJohnQ]

Actually this sounds very interesting, but in all reality, we will all be driving Toasters in the next ten years...........how sad!

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