MCE-5 profitability

The MCE-5 technology is a significant potential source of profitability for carmakers and automotive industry. The MCE-5 combines the profitability advantages of VCR strategy (see: VCR profitability) with those provided by its own technical postulate (see: MCE-5 negative costs).

From the strategical point of view, the MCE-5 technology responds to major technical, economic, environmental and commercial challenges for the coming years, among which:

1)
 The need for carmakers to reduce the cost price of fuel-efficient vehicles:

In 2010, VCR vehicles integrating a MCE-5 VCR engine block will be about 1,000 Euros less expensive than Diesel vehicles and about 3,000 Euros cheaper than gasoline hybrid at same performance, Fuel Consumption and pollutants emissions.
2)
 Increasingly stringent pollutants emissions standards:

As it is a VCR engine operating under stoichiometric combustion, the MCE-5 remains compatible with the 3-way catalyst while improving its effectiveness.
3)
 An increasing market demand for fun-to-drive, high-power and fuel-efficient vehicles:

MCE-5 presents a high power and torque density and allows implementing high power engines on an extended range of vehicles.
4)
 High energy cost, which will widely increase in the coming years:

MCE-5 highly reduces Fuel Consumption.
5)
 The will of most nations to reduce CO2 emissions and to diversify energy sources:

In addition to a high Fuel Consumption reduction, VCR allows for production of bi-fuel or even multi-fuel vehicles that operate at optimum efficiency whatever the fuel.

Contrary to complex combustion processes or ultra-innovative approaches for vehicle propulsion, the MCE-5 technology is not a revolution nor a technological rupture but an evolution of conventional SI engines based on gears and rod-crank mechanism.

The MCE-5 technology is not a rival for all existing SI engines strategies, but a partner: it provides them a major variable parameter to improve their effectiveness.

The availability of the MCE-5 «tool» is only based on a mechanical development: this guarantees an excellent security level and leads to VCR on the short-term. As it doesn’t induce any disadvantage when compared to conventional engines, the MCE-5 technology is a secure choice for VCR implementation on SI engines for the long-term.

Conclusion

The MCE-5 profitability will come from its ability to reduce production costs for vehicles that respond to all determining market and regulation demands. In other words, MCE-5 will also avoid the reduction of carmakers’ profit margin induced by increasingly stringent regulations.

As a result, the MCE-5 technology potentially constitutes a reliable investment to significantly increase each produced vehicle’s profit margin and in general, entire automotive industry profitability. First carmakers producing VCR engines based on the MCE-5 technology could find a short-term commercial opportunity to rapidly make their market share growing.

 
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