Article: GM veteran Runkle tackles diesel.(NEWS)

Byline: David Barkholz

Don Runkle has joined a startup company developing next-generation diesel-engine designs.

Runkle is the new CEO of EcoMotors International of suburban Detroit. The company was founded in 2008 by Peter Hofbauer, a pioneer in the development of contemporary diesel engines. Hofbauer is a former head of Volkswagen AG's powertrain development.

EcoMotors is backed by Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, a venture capitalist who has backed cellulosic ethanol and other technologies meant to redefine vehicle propulsion.

Until mid-2005, Runkle was vice chairman and chief technical officer of Delphi Corp., where he was ...

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