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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Opoc internal combustion engine design, which can improve fuel economy by up to 50 percent, attracts $23.5 million in funding from Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

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 ...

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 ...