It's the Achates opposed-piston (OP) engine, a prototype of which was shown in a Ford F-150 pickup at the 2018 Detroit auto show. That engine had three long cylinders in a row, with one crankshaft ...

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Remarkable innovations have been made to automotive technology since Karl Benz introduced the world to the "Motorwagen" in 1866 and Henry Ford gave rise to the American auto industry with the ...

The opposed-piston engine has been around for over 100 years and is more efficient in almost every way. The engine has no traditional valves, cams, or camshafts, and no head, so it’s simpler and ...

Some are promising, one is not. The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons lined up with a cylinder head on top ...

Horizontally-opposed engines are often referred to as "boxer" engines because the motion of the pistons sort of resembles a boxer, punching. Really, though, if any engine should be named for a ...

Achates Power and Aramco Services recently announced they will put a Ford F-150 on the road with a novel opposed piston engine under the hood, hoping to prove this exotic engine design is the ...

We hereby dub this configuration OP-3. James Atkinson, whose name adorns many of today's high-efficiency engines, originated his cycle on an opposed-piston engine in 1882, but the idea really ...

Together the three recipients will invest another $4 million to develop a 3-cylinder, 3-liter opposed-piston gasoline compression engine that could improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent or more on ...