Lexus RC F makes its European debut at Geneva; V8 with Otto-Atkinson cycle
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2014
The notion of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. In 2005, Ford filed for a patent on Otto-Atkinson technology; the patent (EP 1754872 B1) was published in 2008.
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