In the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainable transportation, an architecture from the 1930s is making an unexpected and powerful comeback. Achates Power , a San Diego-based engineering firm founded in 2004, has spent over two decades refining the , transforming a historic design into what they claim is the cleanest and most efficient internal combustion engine (ICE) demonstrated to date. A Radical Departure from Convention
The Second Coming of the Opposed-Piston Engine: A Look at Achates Power Achates
The primary draw of Achates technology is a "step-function" improvement in efficiency. By combining a two-stroke cycle with the opposed-piston architecture, the engine achieves: the engine achieves: