Transonic Combustion Explained

Transonic Combustion Inc. is a Los Angeles-based cleantech company that is developing supercritical fuel injection systems that enable injection ignition in internal combustion engines.

On October 25, 2010, Transonic presented a technical paper detailing its novel injection ignition combustion process at the SAE 2010 Powertrain Fuels and Lubricants Meeting in San Diego CA.^[1]

On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.^[2]

As of March 2015, Transonic's website was defunct, and in April 2015 the facilities were up for auction.^[3]

References

1. http://papers.sae.org/2010-01-2110 Transonic Combustion - A Novel Injection-Ignition System for Improved Gasoline Engine Efficiency
2. http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20News%20Releases/NR_TP2011 Thirty-One Visionary Companies Selected as Technology Pioneers 2011
3. Web site: Tiger Auctions.

• "10 Green Car Technologies to Watch". Forbes 19 March 2008
• "Companies to watch in green tech transportation". CNET 21 April 2008
• Brian Ahlborn Joins Transonic Combustion as President and CEO. Business Wire 11 December 2008
• "Governor Granholm Announces New Investing and Jobs in Michigan". MEDC 14 April 2009
• "Shaping the Future: 40 Years of Innovation". Venrock 19 May 2009
• Transonic Combustion Completes New Round of Venture Funding. Business Wire 6 May 2009
• "Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guys Drive". Wired Magazine 22 May 2009
• "New Technology Innovation for Two Liter Car". Wirtschaftswoche (German) 17 July 2009
• Video: Transonic board member Vinod Khosla equates cleantech with the internal combustion engine. Washington Post 28 July 2009
• “Capps, local leaders push clean energy bill”. Ventura County Star 16 September 2009
• “Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels: Transonic Combustion Case Study” (available on Transonic's website). Accenture 10 November 2009
• “How Greener Cars & Smarter Transit Fit Into COP15”. Earth2Tech 1 December 2009
• Highlighting Transonic Combustion, “It will be easier, cheaper, and more globally beneficial to cut the fuel consumption of the internal-combustion engine in half”. Motor Trend January 2010
• "Supercritical fuel injection and combustion". SAE Automotive Engineering International 11 January 2010
• "Top Picks from the ARPA-E Summit: Novel technologies from the energy agency's first conference". MIT Technology Review 3 March 2010
• “Transonic Exhibits at Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Innovation Summit; Supercritical Fuel System Can Improve Fuel Economy Between 50-75%”. Green Car Congress 4 March 2010
• “Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test with a Novel Fuel Injection System”. MIT Technology Review 8 March 2010
• “Local startup's aim is better use of fuel: Company has caught the eye of automakers”. Ventura County Star 3 April 2010
• “Transonic Combustion Welcomes Powertrain Veteran Donald Runkle to its Board of Directors”. PR Newswire 20 May 2010
• “Robert Lutz Joins Transonic Combustion's Board of Directors”. PR Newswire 24 May 2010
• “Innovation: Taking Aim at Gas Guzzlers”. Inc. Magazine 1 June 2010