Sentences with phrase «combustion engines»

Direct injection - squirting pressurized fuel straight into each cylinder - is the key to keeping internal - combustion engines relevant in the future.

While the gains expected by other makers are lower, there's widespread agreement that direct injection offers all internal combustion engines yet another new lease on life.

Improved technology is helping to reduce vehicle operating costs, but vehicles with internal combustion engines still require a fair amount of maintenance.

(Electric motors and combustion engines develop their peak power and torque figures at different points, so the two figures can't simply be added together — hence the discrepancy when adding electric and petrol figures.)

This will be the first time a car has completed a lap on electric alone, with other hybrids like Audi's dominant R18 racing cars always sharing power between electric and diesel combustion engines.

Because water has good properties as a coolant, antifreeze is used in internal combustion engines and other heat transfer applications, such as HVAC chillers and solar water heaters.

Toyota is developing many powertrains for the future, including a fuel - cell system for heavy - duty commercial trucks, but remains bullish on its latest internal - combustion engines.

What about an FCV range extender such as the internal - combustion engines that provide backup power and range - anxiety relief in the Chevrolet Volt, BMW i3 and Cadillac ELR?

My knowledge of internal combustion engines is minimal.

Atkinson cycle engines use slightly different valve timing than conventional internal combustion engines, which makes them efficient but at the expense of power.

Unlike internal combustion engines that need oxygen to produce power (something that's pretty rare at the high altitude of the Pikes Peak course), electric motors don't have to breathe and will make the same power at any height.

Whatever progress is made on batteries, Toyota will continue to put more focus on internal - combustion engines.

For now, Toyota is hedging its bets, expecting the world's automotive fleet to require a mix of powertrains in 2030 to replace gas - powered internal combustion engines.

Toyota Motor Corp. says its more - powerful, second - generation hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) will continue to use internal combustion engines that operate with the high - efficiency Atkinson cycle, says David Hermance, director of the Toyota Technical Center.

In the case of BMW, those legacies include a large workforce trained to complete tasks that may soon become obsolete, an assembly network designed to build conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines, a hungry dealer network that needs to be fed, and an EV line - up comprised only of the slow - selling i3.

It's not just automakers — major European countries will ban diesel engines (or in extreme cases, all internal - combustion engines) in the coming decades, with Korea itself restricting the sale of diesel vehicles by 2030.

«So to improve the fuel economy and emissions of internal combustion engines and to enhance the range of a future BEV (battery electric vehicle), we have been rethinking the thermal management of a vehicle cabin,» said Epple, in a statement.

My understanding is that crankcase ventilation is a universal feature in automobile engines and other modern internal combustion engines.

For now, McLaren seems content with internal - combustion engines.

The KAI combines Mazda's latest breakthrough in ICE (internal combustion engines) along with its all - new design architecture.

Metaphorically, debaters discover the fire, make internal combustion engines which bang and eventually act as two co-pilots of a plane: they switch on gases, engines begin to buzz, making together the synchronized operations allowing the take - off until the plane reaches its cruising speed: The rhythm and logic fueling each other.

It takes place in 1941, in a bleakly revised France where Napolean V is the ruler and things like radios, televisions, electricity, and combustion engines don't exist.

The declining quantity of each ingredient threatens the existence of the systems: internal combustion engines and online dating partners.

The lower operating temperatures during cold start are due to increasing fuel efficiency in advanced combustion engines, which leaves less energy in the tailpipe exhaust, said Datye, a study co-author.

The chemical bonds in hydrogen gas, for example, could power fuel cells, internal combustion engines or generators.

Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium - term regulatory requirements (e.g., in the 2020 timeframe) by reducing the average fuel consumption of its new vehicles using a combination of three primary measures: optimizing its combustion engines for greater efficiency; developing alternative drive... Read more →

Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising green energy solution, producing electricity much more efficiently and cleanly than combustion engines.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

Internal combustion engines are irrelevant because they're only a prime mover.

To improve fuel efficiency, advanced combustion engines are being designed to minimize the amount of heat wasted in the exhaust.

Human - generated aerosols can enter the atmosphere directly, as is the case with soot emitted by internal combustion engines in cars and trucks, he explains.

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

«The nice thing about fuels — and the reason why we still have a lot of internal combustion engines rather than electric engines — is that chemical fuels have an enormous energy density.

Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.

The reason for this choice is that constant - speed races like the Indianapolis 500, which take place on oval tracks, are better for internal combustion engines because those are most efficient at constant speed, yet waste fuel and create extra pollution in stop - start driving.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

«We have 100 students this year, designing and building full - sized track cars that are zero emission,» he explains, «and we're building a car that will be racing at Silverstone this year against vehicles powered by combustion engines.»

A new data logger developed by Fraunhofer researchers simultaneously collects data from vehicles with combustion engines, electric drives, external sensors, and location data, and permits the development of new hybrid and electric vehicles.

But Recchia - O'Neill is certainly at the forefront of a transformation of the U.S. — and global — auto market from standard gasoline - fueled internal combustion engines to greener vehicles.

Every year in the Northern Hemisphere about 7.5 million metric tons of black carbon, the equivalent of more than 100 times Earth's total biomass, enters the air from internal combustion engines, forest fires and other sources.

«Moreover, hybrids can foster public confidence and prevalence of electric mobility, as they have the same range than cars with internal combustion engines, contrary to battery electric vehicles.»

That's because internal combustion engines, despite a century of tinkering, have a lot of room for improvement in efficiently converting gasoline to power.

«The lower operating temperatures during cold start are due to increasing fuel efficiency in advanced combustion engines, which leaves less energy in the tailpipe exhaust,» said Abhaya Datye, a distinguished professor at UNM's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and study co-author.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

And the logistics and transport industries will have to switch from internal combustion engines to fuel cells and driverless transport.

Energy storage - to - torque on an EV platform is above 90 percent efficient, compared to less than 35 percent for internal combustion engines.

EV motors often provide up to 15,000 revolutions per minute (rpm), compared to less than 8,000 rpm for internal combustion engines (consumer cars usually provide less than 6,000).

Electric race cars have such a great capacity for speed because they utilize energy more efficiently than internal combustion engines, Waters explained.

That's because fermenting corn into ethanol delivers less liquid fuel energy for internal combustion engines than does burning the kernels to generate power for electric motors.

«This process is 10 percent to 15 percent more efficient than the best commercial diesel engines, which are the most efficient internal combustion engines,» Reitz says.