Diesel is dead? Not quite yet. Achates announced Friday that it has produced a heavy-duty, two-stroke diesel engine with near-zero emissions that costs less than a conventional engine and is expected ...

Suppose you could take an old engine concept discarded in the 1970s, add modern fuel metering and injection control hardware and software, and offer a compact powerplant that cuts the fuel consumption ...

Achates Power of San Diego has developed a two-stroke truck diesel that has two crankshafts linked to two opposed pistons facing each other in a common cylinder. The biggest advantage of this design ...

Achates Power, Inc., the developer of radically improved internal combustion engines that increase fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cost less than conventional engines, today ...

Could a full-size pickup truck ever get a fuel-economy rating of 37 mpg? California-based Achates Power believes it can, and its novel engine uses a design that dates back to the earliest days of ...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Achates Power, a developer of radically improved internal combustion engines that increase fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and are lower cost, ...

Greencarcongress – Achates Power, the developer a two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston (OP) engine, is presenting performance and emissions results of the Achates engine used in a ...

Johnson is the CEO of Achates Power, the decade-long developer of an advanced take on an old-school engine design that could be poised to emerge as a high-efficiency dose of reality to a ...

BELOIT, Wis. & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The leading manufacturer of opposed-piston engines, Fairbanks Morse Engine, an EnPro Industries (NYSE: NPO) company, has signed a joint development and ...

Earlier this year, we wrote about the OPOC engine from EcoMotors. Since then, we've discovered another opposed-piston engine, from Achates Power in San Diego. The EcoMotors engine is a module ...

Opposed-piston engines can be much more efficient than todays gas and diesel engines. With two pistons per cylinder, working in opposite reciprocating action, these engines do not need cylinder heads ...

While Tesla, General Motors, Nissan, BMW and other automakers doggedly push to bring battery-powered vehicles into the mainstream, a company called Achates Power is betting that an old technology ...