Wauseon plant to open for 110-mpg car engines

frost

WAUSEON - The man who drove his 20-year-old Mustang from Napoleon, Ohio, to Las Vegas and back last year on 39 gallons of fuel will open his first manufacturing facility Monday to allow others to get 110 miles per gallon.

Doug Pelmear, owner of Horse Power Sales.net Inc. and Hp2G LLC, will hold an open house Monday morning in the idle 100,000-square-foot factory he has leased in Wauseon to begin manufacturing his revolutionary engine.

The factory, on the Fulton Industries Inc. campus in Wauseon, will be tooled to initially turn out 20 of Mr. Pelmear's custom engines per day with one shift of 25 workers.

A Decatur, Ind., specialty car company, Revenge Designs Inc., has contracted with Mr. Pelmear to purchase 2,000 engines for use in a new vehicle it plans to unveil at the end of this year at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The vehicle is to be called the Revenge Verde Super Car, which will use Mr. Pelmear's 400-horsepower engine and its 500 foot-pounds of torque to travel up to 200 mph and get 110 mpg - though admittedly not at the same time.

"The engine is going to be a really great partnership with the car," explained Emily Levault, a spokesman for Revenge Design. "The idea behind this was to give people what they want while putting people back in their jobs."

Ms. Levault said the Verde will be introduced as both a left and right-hand drive, so that it can be marketed around the world. She said details of its pricing have not been released.

Mr. Pelmear has said that he employs more precise tolerances and manufacturing techniques to decrease heat and energy loss and increase the efficiency of the internal combustion engine. He said he has more than quadrupled the industry average engine efficiency of about 8 percent.

Mr. Pelmear's company employs eight people, and he said he'll "take resumes" on Monday, but won't accept applications, for what would be his first shift of production workers. Depending on how the plant start-up goes, Mr. Pelmear said, "we'll probably add another 25 over the next three months after that." Mr. Pelmear did not say what workers will be paid.

molamann

Sounds too good to be true :/

CBRich

I remember seeing an article about this guy. Just as this article does the other also dodged any specifics. Odd that we can't get any real information from this guy.

frost

Hmm, what are you looking for? Specifics on the engine? Doubt he would give up that goldmine.

CBRich

No, I just think it's a crock and that is why he won't give any info at all.

ChrisSlicks

I'm sorry, a 400hp "traditional" engine that gets 110mpg? And the only thing he did was to improve tolerances? I don't think so, it's a scam to get funding. The same thing happened in Australia 10 years ago, it went nowhere.

BanningZ

^ Or it will be bought up by one of the giants like many hydrogen engines of the past. And then we'll never hear of it again.

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CBRich

Conspiracy Theorist?

AARC51

I think that mustang might disintegrate at 200mph.

Oh, and I TOTALLY trust a guy that says welding things into my engine lifter valley will increase my horse power.

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Lug

It's the same thing as racers who blueprint their engines. I've never heard of any significant mileage gains from blueprinting an engine so I'm calling shenanigans!

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Crash

Yeah, I don't see this happening either. The technology to make this all happen is coming eventually, but certainly not without a LOT of technology.

Nissan, GM and Ferrari are the closest I've seen with the technology for this. Unfortunately, you'll need all of their technologies together to make it work... and then some.

What's required is the ability to change timing, valve lift, valve duration, compression, and displacement all dynamically at any given time. Take GM's or BMW's displacement on demand technology, Ferrari's valve technology, and figure out a way to change compression dynamically and you can create a motor that can handle both extremes; switchable between 100MPG and 500HP.

Nissan's valve technology is cool and a good step in the right direction, but Ferrari's technology is far better, removing cams all-together and using servos/actuators to control the valve's duration and lift. Although that's an expensive method, it's a better method. Removing the cams from the motor and using servos removes spinning mass, chains/belts, engine strain from the springs, and allows the use of a dynamic virtual cam to be used removing the need for internal modifications that support one or the other extreme of performance or fuel economy.

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