Diesel is dead? Not quite yet. Achates announced Friday that it has produced a heavy-duty, two-stroke diesel engine with near-zero emissions that costs less than a conventional engine and is expected ...

Achates Power’s cleaner, heavy-duty diesel engine it developed in a project funded by the California Air Resources Board and several partners has entered fleet service with Walmart in a Peterbilt 579 ...

Achates Power announced that it has achieved ultra-low emissions with its 10.6-liter two-stroke diesel. The opposed-piston engine reached an ultra-low NOx standard of .02 g/bhp-hr in the company’s San ...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Achates Power, a developer of radically improved internal combustion engines that increase fuel efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and are lower cost, ...

Could a full-size pickup truck ever get a fuel-economy rating of 37 mpg? California-based Achates Power believes it can, and its novel engine uses a design that dates back to the earliest days of ...

Achates Power of San Diego has developed a two-stroke truck diesel that has two crankshafts linked to two opposed pistons facing each other in a common cylinder. The biggest advantage of this design ...

Investments in clean-burning combustion engines are picking up, as VCs bet that batteries and exotic fuels like hydrogen won’t be the end of the story for powering automobiles. The latest is Achates ...

Johnson is the CEO of Achates Power, the decade-long developer of an advanced take on an old-school engine design that could be poised to emerge as a high-efficiency dose of reality to a ...

Opposed-piston engines can be much more efficient than todays gas and diesel engines. With two pistons per cylinder, working in opposite reciprocating action, these engines do not need cylinder heads ...

Achates Power and Aramco Services recently announced they will put a Ford F-150 on the road with a novel opposed piston engine under the hood, hoping to prove this exotic engine design is the future ...

Achates Power has been awarded a $5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2020 for a new two-cylinder prototype demonstration, and concept design of a next ...