Hollywood is usually the harbinger of worst case scenarios. Terrorist attacks on urban centers. Zombies that wreak havoc. Your enemy is your biological father. Recently, though, the most popular films seem to have forgotten the climate crisis, ignoring the hottest temperatures ever recorded, more severe storms, drought, wildfires, biodiversity loss, … [continued]
A recent article at The Autopian shows us that the cheapest internal combustion engine cars are starting to fall behind in performance, and this doesn’t bode well for the future of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. Buick’s Slooooowwwww Crossover Matt at The Autopian points out that the 2024 Buick Envista with … [continued]
Nissan says it will no longer develop internal combustion engines — except for the US.
Hyundai is discontinuing the development of internal combustion engines to focus all its energy on electric cars.
Toyota’s embrace of the internal combustion engine and hydrogen has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. Spearheaded by the pigheaded antics of Akio Toyoda, Toyota is celebrating the fact that it refused to sign a pledge to eliminate infernal combustion engines in Glasgow last week by forming Team Japan. … [continued]
With incentives on electric vehicles (EV) in Canada being cancelled and German EV owners being threatened to pay back incentives, Denmark is maybe not the worst country to live in when shopping for an EV after all. But then again, maybe it is. The tax schemes for automobiles in Denmark is … [continued]
This is the story of Ferrari, FIAT, Chrysler, and Tesla. And this is also the story of how engineers working on a project not ready for primetime can come back 10 years later.
Considering the far-reaching cascade of change that is about to be unleashed on human society by the transition from the internal combustion engine to the electric motor, there’s a good case to be made that everyone should have at least a rudimentary understanding of how these two competing forms of propulsion work (many journalists, to say nothing of political and business leaders, are in dire need of a basic primer).
You might be surprised to hear, that after all this time, with so many compelling reasons to make vehicles more energy efficient, that the internal combustion engine still only uses 15% of the energy it receives from gasoline. I sure was. [social_buttons] A century ago, when the internal combustion engine … [continued]
