“The potential for grid-connected vehicles to decimate our demand for liquid hydrocarbon fuels should be clear. Freed from the psychological barriers which hinder widespread market acceptance of pure battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids with an all-electric capability of just [30] kilometres would slash liquid fuel consumption, since such a high proportion of journeys undertaken are well within this range.”

"Plugged In: The End of the Oil Age” by WWF
(Dr. G. Kendall, 2008)

CREATING AND DELIVERING BETTER SOLUTIONS
Libralato Engines is a CleanTech research and development company developing the Libralato engine. The engine is a breakthrough technology, an ‘eco-engine’ for the 21st century - exceptionally compact, powerful, efficient, clean and quiet.

Libralato Holdings is preparing to work with world class partners to produce high grade prototypes of the engine:

Loughborough University (UK) Bucharest University (RO) Hamburg University (DE) The Engine Consultancy (UK) Dolomiti CAD (IT)

Infineon Technologies (DE) ATARD (TR) CRITT M2A (FR) Deutz (DE) SMTC (UK)

Libralato Engines is seeking financial and industrial partners to help commercialise the engine.

"My colleagues and I have undertaken a preliminary examination of the engine. The first verification has been of the kinematics of the engine mechanism. The movement of the internal parts and the oscillation of the mechanism demonstrates that the vibrational behaviour will be much lower than for reciprocating engines. The development of the surface / volume relationship of the expansion chamber is also within reasonable margins. Altogether the behavior is promising and confirmation the brilliance of its invention."
Giovanni Maiorana, Product Engineering Design Concept & Feasibility Manager at FIAT POWERTRAIN TECHNOLOGIES S.p.A. July 2010