The desire of clean energy is soaring. Having realized the importance and potential of renewable energy, more and more car manufacturers are starting to step into this green realm. Lotus, one of my favorite, is one of them.
Lotus Engineering has just announced a collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast and Jaguar Cars Ltd to develop an engine called OMNIVORE, which aim be able to use a wide range of fuel and maximize fuel efficiency when running on renewable fuels.
According to Lotus official website, The OMNIVORE concept will employ novel engine architecture to achieve a high thermal efficiency when fuelled on any alcohols or gasoline. This engine design is expected to significantly increase fuel efficiency for sustainable bio alcohol fuels. The architecture features an innovative variable compression ratio system and uses a two-stroke operating cycle with direct fuel injection. The OMNIVORE engine will be ideally suited to flex-fuel operation with a higher degree of optimisation than is possible with existing architectures.
Lotus Engineering is currently undertaking a design study and the build of a single cylinder research engine for completion in January 2009
Via Autobloggreen and Lotus
What is real nice, what can I say? Perhaps Lotus should start looking at EV as well
So this Omnivore will probably be in one of these sexy ladies!
1 comments:
Wow! Great information to know that this is out there.
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