swissauto WENKO AG - the company

swissauto WENKO AG is a swiss based company with the core competence in development, prototyping and manufacturing of internal combustion engines and charging devices various kinds.

Many years of experience with downsized and high supercharged gasoline engines as well as various activities in Automotive and Motorcycle - racing grants for the technical background of the company.

A modern, state of the art infrastructure is available in two locations. This allows to serve the customer with competent, efficient and target oriented solutions and results.

The core competence of the company includes the following activities:

Design and development of internal combustion engines
Design, development and optimizing of charging systems and devices
Mapping of supercharging devices on our Hot cell test rigs
1D and 3D simulations for internal combustion engines and charging devices
Design and manufacturing of prototype vehicles or concept cars

Endurance tests of engines and drive train components

swissauto WENKO AG - company profile

Wenko AG swissauto was founded in 1987 by Urs Wenger and Beat Kohler
The company is 100% owned by the shareholders
U. Wenger, B. Kohler, HR. Jenni and HP. Götti
The staff has continuously increased up to app. 30 employees and many subcontractors for machining and manufacturing in addition
swissauto runs the company at two locations; at the main site in Burgdorf, design and development of engines and vehicle prototypes are the main focus, at the site in Mellingen, development, optimizing and mapping of supercharging devices for the car manufacturing industry are the major activities, also the engine endurance tests are done here.

Main projects and Milestones

1989	Optimizing of the Judd V8 engine for the Formula 1 Team Brabham with a podium finish at the Monaco Grand prix
1992	Engine development and Prototype manufacturing for the Swatch hybrid concept cars ( Smart pre project )
1995	Development of the new compact and lightweight V4 2-stroke 500 cc engine for World Motorcycle GP; 29 wins, 41 Poles and 3 World champion titles were the remarkable results with this engine.
1996	Completion of the low fuel consumption concept SAVE with the Smile car which was measured officially as the first "3-Liter" gasoline car with street homologation
1997	Idée Swiss Award for the Smile car concept and its technology
1998	Development of the MPE 750 engine Project and implementation of the engine into several applications with different engine layouts
1998	Take – over of the former Comprex AG in Mellingen
1999	Development of a complete new racing bike for the Motorcycle World Championship; first pole position in the 5th race in Barcelona, second pole position in Brno and several top ten rankings paid off the tremendous effort during the race season, competing with the big japanese OEMs.
2000	OECD Award for best practice of sustainable technology for transport
2000	Development of the SA250 2 cylinder 4 Stroke Kart engine, manufacturing of the first pre series engines
2001	SOP of the SA 250 Kart engine. Today, this engine is the most successful 4 stroke Gokart race engine worldwide
2003	SOP of the MPE 750 engine at Weber-Motor AG. First application in the Polaris MSX Jet Ski
2004	SOP of the series production of the Polasis FS / FST Snowmobiles with the Weber MPE 750 engine
2005	Development of the first 4 stroke stand-up race Jetski worldwide for Hydrospace; 17 World champion titles in 5 different categories demonstrate the dominance of this new concept until today.
2006	Development of the new single cylinder 250 cc high performance engine for various applications as Kart, ATV’s, Boats a.s.o.
2007	collaboration with AVL Graz for the development of a new, unique high performance turbocharger Testrig
2008	realization of the VW Golf 5 demonstrator car with Hyprex pressure wave charger
2008	Production of the new swissauto high performance single cylinder engine for various application