Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates Invest

They rely on efficient internal combustion engine of EcoMotors

Bill Gates EcoMotors OPOC engine combustion engine Vinod Khosla
Clean mobility does not necessarily have to be equivalent to an electric car or the fuel cell drive: The American startup company EcoMotors has now developed an opposed piston engine, which should be distinguished by particularly good efficiency values. The OPOC engine (Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder stands for) using the so-called two-cycle method, only weighs half as compared to a conventional combustion engine, is only half as large and will consume up to 50 percent less. Can be made to run the OPOC engine with gasoline, diesel and ethanol.

Now Vinod Khosla and his Khosla Ventures company and its investors as well as Microsoft founder Bill Gates a total of 23.5 million U.S. dollars venture capital invested in EcoMotors and leave it for the attention of the possibly most efficient combustion engine in the world soon to skyrocket. EcoMotors plans to use the cash inflow from Gates & Co. is now to complete testing and building demonstration. The company currently operates by its own account at the sixth generation of engine development.

Behind EcoMotors e.g. Prof. Peter Hofbauer, who headed for many years the engine and transmission development at Volkswagen. In addition Don Runkle, a former General Motors developer. At a theoretical exchange of all vehicle engines OPOC against the United States could completely do without oil imports, the company proudly proclaims.

Bill Gates is the potential of the technology EcoMotors convinced:



"The OPOC engine can be an important step for affordable transportation with low emissions in the developing world. EcoMotors has developed a promising technology that can help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted globally in a meaningful way and at low cost. "

After all scenarios, we know in relation to the change in the individual transport to electric mobility, the engine plays an important role for many decades. To that extent could the Enntwicklung of EcoMotors just come at the right time - to have both the combustion engine as an alternative drives at the same time begin a revolution. So Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates Invest!