In case you missed it, the automotive industry has been on a steady trajectory of internal combustion engine (ICE) downsizing for years. Battery-powered electric vehicles may capture most of the ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

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 ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

Formula 1 power units sit in a strange sweet spot where race-car engineering, high-end chemistry, and ruthless innovation all collide. Under the carbon fiber bodywork, teams are chasing not just raw ...

Danie van der Lith Red Bull believes the fiercest battle in Formula 1’s new engine era may be fought inside the internal combustion engine, despite sweeping regulations designed to tightly control ...