With all the recent emphasis on electric vehicles, we often overlook the technology that still powers most cars on the road today. The internal combustion engine (ICE) has been at the heart of the ...

In 1859, an event as significant as the advent of the wheel took place in Etienne Lenoir's workshop. The Belgian inventor converted a steam engine to ignite a mix of air and coal gas via a two-stroke ...

Global sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles peaked in 2017, with nearly all subsequent growth in personal transport captured by electric vehicles. EV adoption is increasingly driven by economics and ...

People who love cars think that an engine is more than a bunch of metal pieces under the hood. The engine is what makes a car come alive it gives the car its personality. It is why a lot of people ...

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...

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If you follow energy markets closely, you could be forgiven for thinking that oil remains as indispensable as ever. Every geopolitical crisis seems to reinforce the narrative. Tankers moving through ...