2013年3月22日,EcoMotors(官方网站:http://www.ecomotors.com/)与中鼎集团、美国Navistar(纳威司达)公司、美国Generac公司签署了在乘用车及非道路机械、商用车、发电机等领域的产业化合作框架协议,中鼎动力已经获得 EcoMotors10万台发动机订单,由EcoMotors直接向其客户销售,预计2014年下半年开始供货。中鼎动力一期设计产能15万台新型OPOC发动机,主要产品用于非道路机械、发电机等。并计划在2014年建设第二家产能相似的OPOC发动机工厂,可以生产适合乘用车辆使用的80至100马力的发动机。
中鼎动力第一期生产的OPOC发动机将由EcoMotors销售给美国Generac公司,以下是该公司的具体情况:
GENERAC电力(动力)系统股份有限公司成立于1959年,位于美国威斯康辛州,是一家致力于发电机和动力引擎设备的专业设计和制造商,产品包括便携式、车载、家用以及工业用途发电机,其产品应用广泛、性能良好,占美国机电行业的70%份额,是住宅、商业、汽车和工业用发电及引擎设备的国际领导者。(公司官方网站:http://www.generac.com/)
GENERAC在纳斯达克(美股)上市,代码GNRC,最新股价42.05美元,总市值28.76亿美元,该公司在2013第一季度的总收入约4亿美金。(参见:http://stock.finance.sina.com.cn/usstock/quotes/GNRC.html)
公司于1985年开发生产了家用型发电机,其小巧、高效、静音和美观的优点赢得了全球广大用户的青睐。随着也业务的不断扩大,销售网络随即搭建,全球的家用发电机销售和售后进入了正规化发展。
1993年,全球工业化的进程大步向前,公司在做好已有产品的研发生产的同时,又瞄准了工业和商业用发电机的市场,先后建立了Eagle和Whitewater两个生产基地,先进的生产线、超前的研发技术、高质量的产品和优良的售后服务成就了公司的再一步发展壮大。
2000年以后,公司基于其研发、生产和销售平台,扩大了生产规模,先后开发出了模组并联发电机系列、商用轻型发电机系列、二代民用住宅发电机系列、便携式发电机系列和动力清洗机系列等产品。
2011年收购德国Magnum公司,2012年收购Gen Tran公司,公司员工升至2000多人,生产基地扩至5家,并有一家专业的物流仓储中心。
从传统的柴油、汽油燃料到今天的燃气及双燃料系统,这是先进研发和生产技术的结晶,广泛的产品、先进的技术、规模化的生产和全球的服务网络,这就是今天的Generac。
在车载发电机领域,Generac为房车工业提供优质产品,产品包括有从3.6千瓦至8.5千瓦的燃气、石油以及柴油发电机。工厂还具有一条优秀的从800瓦到15千瓦的便携式产品生产线。
EcoMotors与Generac联手开发节能高效的后备电力发电机(参见:http://www.generac.com/News_And_Events/Articles/Generac_and_EcoMotors_Agree_to_Engine_Development_Partnership/)
2011年,EcoMotors宣布与Generac合作,共同开发一款节能高效的后备电力发电机。EcoMotors是在科斯拉风险投资公司和比尔.盖茨的支持下成立于2008年的一家清洁技术初创公司,主要是设计和生产高效燃料发动机,适用于汽车、卡车、轮船、拖拉机、飞机、和后备电力发电机等任何使用汽油或柴油的机械。EcoMotors宣称其opoc引擎比传统内燃机节能高达50%,而且更加小巧轻便。
2011年,在TechCrunch网站于纽约举办Disrupt会议上,EcoMotors公司的CEO Don Runkle讲解了与Generac公司合作对其企业所带来的影响:“我们打算通过与Generac公司合作来证明EcoMotors的opoc引擎能够应用于发电机组及发电机领域,期望能够在2013年看到装备有opoc引擎的发电机面市。我们已经有样机,现在期待能够被广泛地应用。发电机领域是一个拥有接近80亿美金的市场,我们希望通过与一个在这个市场占主导地位的公司合作从而得到更快的发展。测试引擎是否适用比测试汽车简单,因为不必做碰撞试验就能够检测引擎的功效。发电机组也是按照一定的速度运行的,在美国是每秒60转,在欧洲是每秒50转的速度。然而对于汽车用的、船用的和宇航工业的引擎,必须能够迅速加速和降速,使用发电机就便于调节速度了。”
以下是Generac官方网站上的报道:
Generac and EcoMotors Agree to Engine Development Partnership 6/14/2011
Contact: Lincoln Hill
313-203-7134
lhill
@pcgcampbell.com
Allen Park, Mich., June 14, 2011 – EcoMotors International and Generac Power Systems, Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) have announced an agreement to jointly develop the revolutionary EcoMotors opoc? engine for Generac products. The agreement is designed to enable Generac to apply the opoc? technology to its market-leading range of residential, commercial and industrial power generation solutions.
“We are very excited to partner with Generac on this game-changing initiative for the power generation industry.” said Don Runkle, CEO of EcoMotors. “Together, our organizations look forward to bringing clean, efficient opoc?-powered Generac products to the power generation market in the near future.”
Aaron Jagdfeld, CEO of Generac, added, “This agreement with EcoMotors reflects Generac’s proud role as the standby power generation industry leader and innovator, and our continual quest to bring new technologies that add value for our customers and shareholders.”
Allen Gillette, Generac’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, noting the inherent functional advantages of opoc? said, “We believe that this remarkably compact and flexible engine can play a key role in ensuring that Generac products remain responsive to our customer needs, and to further distinguish Generac in terms of advanced technologies that are environmentally sound.”
Since 1959, Generac has been a leading manufacturer of backup power generation products serving residential, light commercial and industrial markets. Generac’s power systems range in output from 800 watts to 9 megawatts and are available through a broad network of independent dealers, retailers and wholesalers. Generac is committed to developing a long-term vision that promotes environmentally responsible products, processes and partnerships and strives to be a positive contributor of sustainable growth in the backup power generation industry. For more information on Generac and its extensive line of both portable and automatic generators, visit www.GENERAC.com.
Established in early 2008, EcoMotors is changing the landscape of internal combustion power. Based in Allen Park, Mich., EcoMotors is commercializing the unique opoc? engine for use in cars, light trucks, commercial vehicles, aerospace, marine, agriculture, auxiliary power units, generators, etc. Anywhere conventional gas or diesel power is currently utilized, opoc? represents a better propulsion solution.
The two primary investors in EcoMotors are Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates. Khosla Ventures, based in Menlo Park, California, offers venture assistance, strategic advice and capital to entrepreneurs. The firm helps entrepreneurs extend the potential of their ideas in breakthrough scientific work in clean technology areas such as solar, battery, high efficiency engines, lighting, greener materials like cement, glass and bio-refineries for energy and bio-plastics, and other environmentally friendly technologies as well as traditional venture areas like the Internet, computing, mobile and silicon technology arenas. Vinod Khosla, who founded the firm in 2004, is a founder of Sun Microsystems and was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins.
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