While the Scuderi Split-cycle engine may be very new (his patent was filed in July 2001), it is based on a design that's been ...

Piston powered engines, chiefly the Otto and Diesel cycle, are current kings of the internal combustion mountain. Piston powered engines turn reciprocating energy (the up and down motion of the ...

By splitting the four strokes of the Otto cycle between a pair of parallel ... up to 80 percent fewer toxins than a typical internal combustion engine. When fully developed with its turbocharged ...

This rivals the Otto cycle. ABG: Certainly a traditional ... like this that could achieve more efficiency with the internal combustion engine it really seems like it would be beneficial.

Richard Trevithick’s design had a boiler but this was removed to make the internal combustion engine. The German inventor Nicklaus Otto developed the first four stroke engine in 1876.