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) ...

A diesel-electric hybrid helicopter using Ecomotors OPOC engines is a concept project grouped under the name of eCO2avia by EADS Innovation Works. Highly efficient electrical motors driving the rotors ...

Navistar International Corporation today announced it has reached a development agreement with EcoMotors International in support of the company’s opoc (Opposed-Piston, Opposed-Cylinder) engine ...

It may be no coincidence that Hofbauer, chairman and chief technical officer at EcoMotors, conceived the OPOC engine in 1997 while working as head of powertrain development at VW, though long after ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALLEN PARK -- EcoMotors International, developer of the efficient, clean, lightweight, powerful opoc (opposed piston, opposed cylinder) engine, announced Tuesday that it has completed its Series C ...

EcoMotors International has received $23.5 million from Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and investor Vinod Khosla for engineering and testing of its trademarked Opoc engine technology. EcoMotors ...

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 ...

DETROIT - One of China's largest auto parts makers said it will construct a $200-million factory to build a radical new engine developed by a suburban Detroit startup. Zhongding Power would be the ...