Compact, highly efficient heavy-fuel engines could unlock greater potential in small unmanned aircraft, enabling longer missions with heavier payloads. They also could accelerate the emerging electric ...

DARPA has awarded LiquidPiston an additional $2.5 million to continue development of its 30kW X4 rotary diesel engine prototype, bringing DARPA’s total funding of the engine technology to $6 million.

There's been a lot of development activity around flying vehicles recently, but the Air Force wants a shortcut to an unmanned electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) concept for urban transport.

BLOOMFIELD, Conn., April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LiquidPiston, a leading innovator of compact and efficient engine technology and hybrid power systems, today announced the company’s intent to ...

A company that makes an innovative rotary internal combustion engine just received a Phase I research grant from the U.S. Army to develop hybrid-electric propulsion for UAVs. The development ...

LiquidPiston is to study the application of its rotary diesel engine technology to hybrid-electric propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft and advanced air mobility vehicles under a contract from the ...

BLOOMFIELD, Conn., April 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LiquidPiston, Inc., a leading innovator of efficient internal combustion engine technology and hybrid power systems, today announced that a fully ...

One of the main reasons people invest in technology firms is that they often forward radical new innovations. But in the case of LiquidPiston, the advancements are more nuanced. Here, the company ...