The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Lyon is based in Tokyo and writes about the car industry. If the actions of global automakers are anything to go by, the ...

Yamaha Motor says the 5.0-liter V8 engine will be developed for automobiles and based on the one used by the Lexus RC F coupe. Yamaha Motor President Yoshihiro Hidaka says the firm has "a strong ...

Increasingly stricter emission rules are making it tough for automakers to continue offering cars powered by internal-combustion engines, with some countries such as the United Kingdom even making ...

There are something like a billion cars on the world’s roads today and almost all of them are powered by internal combustion. In fact, the 150-year-old technology is at the heart of most forms of ...

The automakers are making it official—they’re phasing out internal combustion and heading, with varying degrees of happiness, into an all-electric future. So at what point does the more than 120-year ...

Mercedes-Benz, the German automaker known for pioneering the internal combustion engine, says electric vehicles will be the dominant car on the road, particularly luxury EVs. The automaker’s CEO says ...

On August 9, 1898, Rudolf Diesel was issued a patent for his diesel internal combustion engine, a competitor to the gasoline engine at the time (see figure below from patent). Armed with an education ...

The world hit a transport milestone in 2017, though most people wouldn’t have noticed it at the time. That year, consumers bought more than 85 million automobiles, a sales volume that declined in 2018 ...

I. A SURVEY of the progress made during the last twenty five years in almost any field of engineering work would show an immense advance. Even during the past ten years very considerable progress has ...