{"id":214204,"date":"2010-01-22T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=34413"},"modified":"2010-01-22T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:46:43","slug":"lotus-animates-omnivore-guts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/214204","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Animates Omnivore Guts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34443\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/lotus-animates-omnivore-guts\/omnivore-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/omnivore1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s two-stroke, is direct-injected, has variable valve timing, doesn&#8217;t need a spark plug, and has a variable compression ratio that maxes out at an incredible 40:1. Oh, and it&#8217;s also at least 10 percent more efficient than a conventional gasoline engine and can run on virtually any liquid fuel. It&#8217;s the Omnivore, a super-efficient prototype engine by Group Lotus, and now you can see how it works in real time thanks to a slick Flash animation.<\/p>\n<p>Group Lotus has been working on the Omnivore for a while, but now they&#8217;re really gaining momentum. In recent testing they proved that the two-stroke mill is 10 percent more efficient than similar-sized direct-injeciton gasoline engines, and it burns cleaner to boot. That&#8217;s thanks to a free-floating &#8220;puck&#8221; that slides up and down at the top of the combustion chamber to vary compression ratio based on engine load and type of fuel. It also has a Trapping Valve on the exhaust side that varies duration.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a title=\"Group Lotus - Omnivore Animation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grouplotus.com\/manageshowcase\/uploadpassthru\/8628.swf\" >Group Lotus<\/a> to see for yourself how it works. It&#8217;s an incredible design that could eventually lead to 500cc auto engines cranking out 150 horsepower while returning 50-plus miles to the gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a title=\"Jalopnik - Omnivore Animation\" href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5454636\/lotus-omnivore-engine-gets-interactively-animated\" >Jalopnik<\/a>, <a title=\"Autoblog - Omnivore gains 10 percent efficiency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/10\/lotus-omnivore-engine-is-10-more-efficient-with-more-to-come\/\" >Autoblog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kycxP6xiugEnEU9UkL2LNJW4KMs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kycxP6xiugEnEU9UkL2LNJW4KMs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kycxP6xiugEnEU9UkL2LNJW4KMs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kycxP6xiugEnEU9UkL2LNJW4KMs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two-stroke, is direct-injected, has variable valve timing, doesn&#8217;t need a spark plug, and has a variable compression ratio that maxes out at an incredible 40:1. Oh, and it&#8217;s also at least 10 percent more efficient than a conventional gasoline engine and can run on virtually any liquid fuel. It&#8217;s the Omnivore, a super-efficient prototype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}