Ease of adoption is critical in order to turn innovation into a business. With easy adoption as a mandate that was integral to product development, CHP engineers not only had engine functionality, but ease of manufacturing, and product integration goals to meet.
First, manufacturers had to seamlessly adopt the CHP engine without a significant capital investment in new facilities, machines, or materials. They needed to retain current production methods and their trained workforce. Meeting those objectives, the CHP engine can be seamlessly manufactured in any current engine plant, with current materials, processes, machines, and trained labor. No foreign sourced or expensive materials from mining were needed. All CHP manufacturing materials can be obtained from recycling just as every CHP engine can be 100% recycled back into aluminum, steel and plastic. Equally environmentally responsible, the overall energy requirement to manufacture a CHP engine is 90%+ less than any other alternative such as electric.
CHP engines typically have half the components, and a third the physical envelope of a comparative conventional engine, resulting in a significant production savings from having less parts to assembly, and less materials to consume.
Product manufacturers enjoy a similar financial advantage because swapping a CHP engine with a conventional engine is a comparatively easy task. Easy conversion to CHP engines also preserves their investment in designing, manufacturing and selling product, so that CHP is just another engine option.
For consumers, having CHP as an engine option eliminates a potential barrier to sales, because consumers are already familiar with the manufacturers product, and an engine option is something they expect. Now the CHP engine option becomes a choice of better fuel economy, more power, less maintenance, longer service life, and less emissions. All of these standard parameters put CHP as the logical preference over a conventional engine.
In summary, from engine and product manufacturers to consumers, the CHP engine has been designed to support rapid adoption at minimal cost through the elimination of traditional market entry barriers at all levels.