Tim Bauer - 2008 Laureate

By adapting off-the-shelf mechanical components, Tim Bauer has developed a direct injection kit that can be easy retrofitted on two-stroke engines widely used in Asia. With help from Tim Bauer, many tricycle drivers in Vigan, including Wilfredo Rabuya (in blue), have retrofitted their vehicles with the direct injection kit. Local mechanics have been trained by Envirofit staff to install the direct injection kit, a new skill that provides extra income and create new jobs Equipped with an Envirofit kit, a two-stroke engine stays light, simple and powerful, but also becomes cleaner and more fuel-efficient. With the kit installed on his tricycle, driver Angel raqueno reduces his petrol and oil consumption and increases his daily income. Tricycle-taxi driver Angel Raqueno pays off the low-interest loan that helped him purchase his direct injection kit. Micro-credit is essential to encourage widespread use of the device. Two-stroke engines emit noxious, blueish somke making tricycles a majour source of air pollution in the Philippines and other Asian countries. Many Filipinos rely on tricycles for income and for transport along congested urban roads. Tricycle taxis wait for customers in Manila. These vehicules are vital for Filipino cities, providing inexpensive transport for both locals and tourists. Tim Bauer, centre, has developed a simple and affordable retrofit kit that virtually eliminates pollution from the two-stroke engines of Filipino tricycle taxis. Envirofit's direct-injection kit provides a viable means for tricycles to comply with the Philippines's strict air pollution legislation. With their highly polluting two-stroke engines, tricycles represent a public health hazard. In Particular for the drivers who inhale their exhaust all day long Tim Bauer (second from left) with, from left, Nathan Lorenz, Ron Bills and Paul Hudnut, three of the Colorado State University colleagues who helped him develop and commercialize the direct injection kit. How retrofitting changes a two-stroke engine.
By adapting off-the-shelf mechanical components, Tim Bauer has developed a direct injection kit that can be easy retrofitted on two-stroke engines widely used in Asia.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
By adapting off-the-shelf mechanical components, Tim Bauer has developed a direct injection kit that can be easy retrofitted on two-stroke engines widely used in Asia.

With help from Tim Bauer, many tricycle drivers in Vigan, including Wilfredo Rabuya (in blue), have retrofitted their vehicles with the direct injection kit.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
With help from Tim Bauer, many tricycle drivers in Vigan, including Wilfredo Rabuya (in blue), have retrofitted their vehicles with the direct injection kit.

Local mechanics have been trained by Envirofit staff to install the direct injection kit, a new skill that provides extra income and create new jobs

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Local mechanics have been trained by Envirofit staff to install the direct injection kit, a new skill that provides extra income and create new jobs

Equipped with an Envirofit kit, a two-stroke engine stays light, simple and powerful, but also becomes cleaner and more fuel-efficient.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Equipped with an Envirofit kit, a two-stroke engine stays light, simple and powerful, but also becomes cleaner and more fuel-efficient.

With the kit installed on his tricycle, driver Angel raqueno reduces his petrol and oil consumption and increases his daily income.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
With the kit installed on his tricycle, driver Angel raqueno reduces his petrol and oil consumption and increases his daily income.

Tricycle-taxi driver Angel Raqueno pays off the low-interest loan that helped him purchase his direct injection kit. Micro-credit is essential to encourage widespread use of the device.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Tricycle-taxi driver Angel Raqueno pays off the low-interest loan that helped him purchase his direct injection kit. Micro-credit is essential to encourage widespread use of the device.

Two-stroke engines emit noxious, blueish somke making tricycles a majour source of air pollution in the Philippines and other Asian countries.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Two-stroke engines emit noxious, blueish somke making tricycles a majour source of air pollution in the Philippines and other Asian countries.

Many Filipinos rely on tricycles for income and for transport along congested urban roads.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Manila, Philippines, 2008
Many Filipinos rely on tricycles for income and for transport along congested urban roads.

Tricycle taxis wait for customers in Manila. These vehicules are vital for Filipino cities, providing inexpensive transport for both locals and tourists.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Manila, Philippines, 2008
Tricycle taxis wait for customers in Manila. These vehicules are vital for Filipino cities, providing inexpensive transport for both locals and tourists.

Tim Bauer, centre, has developed a simple and affordable retrofit kit that virtually eliminates pollution from the two-stroke engines of Filipino tricycle taxis.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Tim Bauer, centre, has developed a simple and affordable retrofit kit that virtually eliminates pollution from the two-stroke engines of Filipino tricycle taxis.

Envirofit's direct-injection kit provides a viable means for tricycles to comply with the Philippines's strict air pollution legislation.

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Vigan, Philippines, 2008
Envirofit's direct-injection kit provides a viable means for tricycles to comply with the Philippines's strict air pollution legislation.

With their highly polluting two-stroke engines, tricycles represent a public health hazard. In Particular for the drivers who inhale their exhaust all day long

©RolexAwards/Stefan Walter

Manila, Philippines, 2008
With their highly polluting two-stroke engines, tricycles represent a public health hazard. In Particular for the drivers who inhale their exhaust all day long

Tim Bauer (second from left) with, from left, Nathan Lorenz, Ron Bills and Paul Hudnut, three of the Colorado State University colleagues who helped him develop and commercialize the direct injection kit.

©Eddie Frost

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, 2008
Tim Bauer (second from left) with, from left, Nathan Lorenz, Ron Bills and Paul Hudnut, three of the Colorado State University colleagues who helped him develop and commercialize the direct injection kit.

How retrofitting changes a two-stroke engine.

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How retrofitting changes a two-stroke engine.