Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine

JohnnyBGod writes "Lotus claim to have invented a new, more efficient engine design. The two-stroke, flex-fuel engine can achieve, according to the surprisingly technical press release, 'approximately 10% better [fuel consumption] than current spray-guided direct injection, spark ignition engines.' The engine has a sliding puck arrangement to control its compression ratio, and has direct injection and a wet sump, to eliminate fuel leakage to the exhaust and the need to mix oil with the fuel, two common problems with two-stroke engines. Lotus engineering have released a video explaining the engine's operation."

Comments

Re:What took it all so long??

[NoPantsJim]

Yes, but keep in mind, it still looked like a Ford Fiesta.

Re:What took it all so long??

[geekmux]

So where is this magical Ford engine at now? A one-off prototype car is no better than a single experimental engine.

Oh, please, isn't the location obvious? It's sitting in the "high-priority" warehouse, right next to the Ark of the Covenant and the Roswell "balloon debris"...

We'll get to it, in 30 years, 8 months, 4 depressions, 12 corruptions, and 20 trillion dollars in oil profits from now...

Until then, YMMV...