Recovered from jet lag and with a good night's sleep behind them, the Scuderi Team was ready for another full day of exhibiting at the 2008 Engine Expo in Stuttgart, Germany. With a the remainder of the materials finally released from German Customs, there was plenty of information to distribute to the hundreds of visitors that showed to learn more about the Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine. The centerpiece of the exhibit - the first model of the engine that features the valve train assembly - continued to draw a crowd as many onlookers watched the revolving model while getting more of... Read more about "Engine Expo Day Two: Progress in Motion"...
Scuderi Group executives are busy planning for their next trip, this time to Engine Expo 2008, May 6-8 in Stuttgart, Germany. Now in its tenth year, Engine Expo is billed as "the most important international trade show for automotive, bus and truck engine designers and manufacturers ... Engine Expo provides the most intense concentration of engine component manufacturers and technology providers anywhere in the world." Scuderi Group executives and staff will be at Stand 5342. The company invites attendees to stop by to get an overview of the Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine, and to learn about recent test findings -- based... Read more about "It's on to Stuttgart, with something to look at "...
The final day of the 75th Annual SAE World Congress came to a close Thursday. With sore feet and fatigue very evident among the group, the team kept continuing to be available to all who wanted to engage. Even with marketing material reinforcements arriving that morning, information about the most efficient internal combustion engine was grabbed at such a fast rate that only four kits were left when the lights were finally shut off at Detroit's Cobo Center. Even still as the official close was announced, local OEMs were still hanging around the exhibit booth wanting to know more about... Read more about "Scuderi Group at SAE 2008 World Congress Day Four: Over and out!"...
VIENNA, Austria, April 28, 2008 -Oil prices hit an all-time high near $120 a barrel Monday after a weekend refinery strike closed a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil to refineries in the U.K. The shutdown comes amid supply outages in Nigeria that have helped to support oil against a strengthening dollar. "We've got a confluence of a number of events that have really disrupted crude oil supply," said Victor Shum, an energy analyst with Purvin & Gertz in Singapore. "That's what's driving oil to a new record even though the U.S. Read more about "Oil nears $120 following labor and military strikes"...
The Scuderi Group recently announced that tests of the Scuderi Engine’s valve train by an independent laboratory have exceeded expectations with a nearly perfect match to initial computer models of the engine. The crossover valve train is one of the most critical portions of the Scuderi Engine. In this podcast, Scuderi Group President Sal Scuderi talks about the latest developments. Read more about "Scuderi Group Podcast - April 30, 2008"...
After many hours of travel via trains, planes and automobiles, the Scuderi team arrived at the brand new Stuttgart Messa on Tuesday for the opening of the 2008 Engine Expo, Europe's premier trade show focusing on engine design and development. This is the third consecutive year the Scuderi Group and its Air-Hybrid Engine had participated in the event. Sal Scuderi presents his talk during the Open Technology Forum held Tuesday at Engine Expo in Stuttgart, Germany. For the first time, an actual model of what is expected to be the world's most fuel efficient internal combustion engine was on display... Read more about "Engine Expo Day One: Start your engines!"...
Day Two of the 2008 SAE World Congress came and went in a flurry. With news stories hitting the press about the latest laboratory test results, information about the engine and copies of the DVD were in high demand. Hundreds of engineers from around the world flowed through the booth hoping to learn more about the engine, which has passed every critical test to date. Reps from major OEMS from the U.S., Europe, and Asia were present, often visiting more than once with colleagues and others interested in finding out all the technical nuances that enable the engine to... Read more about "Scuderi Group at SAE World Congress Day Two"...
Day Three of the 75th Annual SAE World Congress saw no let up of the flow of OEMs, engineers and media streaming through the booth to get a better look at the much-anticipated Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine. With literature and DVDs at a premium, the Scuderi exhibit team did their best to make sure the right information got to all who wanted it. But have no fear, marketing and communication reinforcements are on their way! Wednesday started with an off-site meeting between the engineering team and a major local OEM that showed genuine progress that U.S. Read more about "Scuderi Group at SAE World Congress 2008 Day Three"...
DETROIT, MI -April 15, 2008 - Reaching yet another significant milestone in its development of the world's most fuel efficient internal combustion engine -- The Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine -- the Scuderi Group today announced that measured results from valve train test rig tests by an independent laboratory have exceeded expectations and have had a nearly perfect match to initial computer predictions of the engine. This announcement marks the first day of the Scuderi Group's participation in the SAE World Congress and Exposition at the Cobo Center, where they will be meeting with automotive engineers from around the... Read more about "Scuderi Engine's Valve Train Sub-Assembly Tested by Independent Laboratory"...
Crude oil prices hit a new all-time intraday high after the Energy Department reported a surprise decline in U.S. oil inventories. The government said inventories slid by 3.2 million barrels last week -- a surprise for Wall Street given analysts surveyed by Dow Jones forecasted a 2.4 million barrel increase. Also, the Energy Department said gasoline inventories declined by 3.4 million barrels last week. Oil futures soared more than $3.50 on the news and hit a new intraday record of $112.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Read more about "Inventory Data Sends Oil Prices to Fresh Records"...