[pf] Fw. "revolutionary" engine: Mayflower Plc's VME - news

· Another one of those multitude of small steps in the right direction,
leading hopefully to a positive future.  D.

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http://davd.tripod.com/APRR-011005.html#12606
  is the excerpt:
                   Mayflower unveils "revolutionary" engine

 - British engineering group Mayflower Corporation Plc unveiled a new
engine yesterday which it said could increase fuel efficiency by at least
40 percent and decrease emissions by 50 percent. The engine, the result of
an 11-year research programme, could be used in everything from buses to
lawnmowers and be in production within five years, Mayflower said. "The
Mayflower e3 Variable Motion Engine...represents a quantum leap in the
design and development of the internal combustion engine," said the
company, which owns a 33 percent stake in the technology rights. Although
the technology will take another 12 to 18 months to develop before
Mayflower can license it to a manufacturer, it was well received by others
in the industry. "In the automobile industry we receive hundreds of crazy
ideas on engine design," said Nick Stephenson, deputy chairman of
independent British _carmaker_Rover_, who has seen the designs. "You can
rest assured this is a _serious_and_clever_idea_," he said. 
                          SIMPLE CHANGE
The technology works by allowing the engine to change its capacity,
becoming larger when more power is needed and smaller and more economical
when it is not, Mayflower said. This could lead to a high-powered vehicle
that could adjust automatically to an economical family car when the need
arose, the company said in a statement. The engine employs a simple change
in the design, _changing_the_piston_motion_from_circular_to_elliptical_,
and will not cost any more to make, Chief Executive John Simpson told
reporters at a news conference. "There are no increased costs to the engine
manufacturer, so there should be no larger cost to the consumer," he said.

_Full_story_ at:
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/12606/newsDate/2-Oct-2001
/story.htm [all on same line in browser window]
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