Mass.-designed ‘split-cycle’ motor gets 65 miles per gallon, but auto industry could balk at costs

James Abundis/Globe Staff

By Jay Fitzgerald

Globe Correspondent September 26, 2011

After a decade of development, a small Massachusetts company has produced a car engine that recent tests show can produce fuel economy of 65 miles per gallon of gas and dramatically reduce carbon pollutants, even without hybrid-style electric batteries.
Now comes the tough job: selling the radical design to the world’s automakers.
Scuderi Group LLC, a family-run operation in West Springfield, hopes to license its “split-cycle engine’’ design to automakers.

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