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The Scuderi engine, in 2005–2013 was a claimed new type of engine with claimed benefits. No engine to date has been produced commercially.
In 2009, the company claimed to have raised $35M to develop the engine, and in 2010 said it was seeking to raise another $40m.[1]
In 2013, the Scuderi company had to pay an SEC fine $100,000 fine and repay monies: for spending shareholder's money on Scuderi family members.[2] And in 2015 further SEC cases against Scuderi followed.
The engine, formally called the Scuderi Split Cycle Engine, is a split-cycle, internal combustion engine invented by Carmelo J. Scuderi (April 13, 1925 – October 16, 2002).[3] Scuderi Group, an engineering and licensing company based in West Springfield, Massachusetts and founded by Carmelo Scuderi's children, is testing a working prototype of the engine that was officially unveiled to the public on April 20, 2009.[4][5][6]
In 2009, Scuderi Group released video footage of a naturally aspirated one-liter prototype of the Scuderi engine firing on its own in the laboratory in October, 2009.[7]
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- ^ Ben Wojdyla (2009-04-20). ""Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine Could Make 140 HP Per Liter," Jalopnik, April 30, 2008". Jalopnik.com. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
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- ^ "Media Gallery — Scuderi Engine". Scuderi Group. 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2013-07-05.