Battery-powered electric vehicles have their limitations, so some startups and researchers are working to revamp the internal combustion engine
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel—Back in 2014, Shaul Yaakoby was spending his days assessing damaged vehicles for insurance companies. He spent his nights in a Tel Aviv-area machine shop cutting and assembling pieces of aluminum. The self-described inventor, a high-school dropout who grew up on an Israeli communal citrus farm and spent the last 25 years as an insurance assessor, has several patents for products ranging from a water purification system to a theft-proof car key.
“When you feel you have the idea for something big, you just have to do it,” Mr. Yaakoby said. “So I bought a block of aluminum and cut it by hand to build my engine.” After several months of work, he took his product to his business partners, Gal Fridman, a technology-marketing veteran, and Ariel Gorfung, an industrial engineer. They founded Aquarius Engines Ltd. in 2014 to bring Mr. Yaakoby’s super-efficient gasoline-powered engine to the increasingly environmentally conscious automotive market. Now on its fifth-generation machine, the company has successfully tested its engine in the lab, though not in cars.
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