Last week, news of Microsoft founder Bill Gates investing in a start-up company called EcoMotors surfaced. The reason which prompted one of the wealthiest people on the planet into providing funding ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EcoMotors International, a startup based in Troy, Michigan, has a new approach to an old idea–the two-stroke engine–which it says is up to 50 percent more efficient than most vehicle engines and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...