Not sure if this has come up on the site before, could not find anything, so thought I would share. Cheers Gaz
Call me cynical, but it's a start up company, that has been going over 10 years and there is no evidence of a working prototype. Lots of fancy graphics, CAD models and an aspiration that car companies will take the unproven technology and make it work. History is littered with such projects that seldom go anywhere. My old University had one such project (the Merritt engine) that kept a guy and his team in post for 20 years on the promise of a great leap forward. Ford and Cosworth even put funding into it. Other lecturers that looked into it, reckoned that if it worked, and his claims were true, we would have to re-write the known laws of Thermodynamics.
I must admit I did see it had been around (and similar tech) for a while, I did see a video that (supposedly) showed it in a Mazda MX5. I suppose I need to be aware of shiny things. Cheers Gaz
Have a hydraulic swash plate pump on my desk as a pen holder first time I've heard the term in 30 years
Similar principle to varying the cyclic angle of attack on a helicopter blade using a swash plate, only difference being the engine, which in turn drives the swashplate through the gearbox. In this instance it is reversed since the rotational force is derived from the pistons acting on the swashplates at either end. Clever in principle and likely very costly to produce.
