Bill Gates invests $ 24 million in eco-friendly engine

Large companies and individual researchers have long been looking for opportunities to save fuel in the transport sector, this does not surprise anyone. But here someone Bill Gates enters the battle with resource dependence, investing in a company that, according to her, rethought the idea of ​​an internal combustion engine. And not only rethought, but also intended to embody their achievements in the engine opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder).

Modern cars, according to the creators of opoc, are fundamentally little different from the Ford T, and the typewriter is already more than a century. The basis of the technology of internal combustion engines was laid in the early 19th century.

EcoMotors , a development company in which Gates invested his money, is a Detroit start-up who is trying to radically change the engine design in our cars. The peculiarity lies in the fact that the fuel for new engines will remain the same, which means that research on the production of a new energy carrier is not needed, and in the long term it will not be necessary to redo the infrastructure of energy companies (which leads to economic perturbations).


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The engine that they are trying to build at EcoMotors promises to be easier, cheaper, more economical and, of course, more environmentally friendly. Opoc, which was the first commercial project of the company, is a turbodiesel, in which there are two times less parts than in the usual one. And it weighs as much less. As for power, the developers claim that the proportion is as follows: 1 pound (0.45 kg) of engine weight per 1 hp In other words, an engine weighing 135 kg will have 300 hp.

Bill Gates allocated $ 23.5 million to the company, as he believes that opoc could become very popular in developing countries. According to him, the topic is promising, raised at the global problems of humanity.

The infusion of this money will allow the company to complete the development stage and proceed to testing. A prototype vehicle with a new engine may appear at the end of this year, the start of industrial application is expected in three years.

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