You can either believe there is more smoke and mirrors than real engineering or you can believe that Torvec has learned a hard lesson several times. That lesson being there are major forces within EVERY automotive company that will spend a LOT of money and time to pick apart any results Torvec releases.
This is what happened with the EPA. Torvec comes out of nowhere and throws a big rock in the middle of their carefully constructed pond. The way EPA results are obtained have NOTHING to do with real world driving. Outsider tech that shows up 10 years of EPA kludged together junk that doesn't work off a testbed, had to be slammed. Otherwise some highly paid government workers would have to defend spending $60 million.
All the equipement and time is being spent to make defendable results. I think it's overly conservative, but they've been torn apart before and I think they want to announce big. Anything promising better than a mile or two per gallon for less cost better be real and they know that.
Getting tired of waiting, but expecting an aggressive, professional marketing effort when they do. I want to see cutaways in Popular Science in months not years.