GM's Chevrolet Volt, an electric car with a combustion engine range extender, could be another beneficiary.
The S3D application models the underlying turbulent combustion of fuels in an internal combustion engine.
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Or maybe over the next 8, 10, 15 years the combustion engine becomes a relic.
Then during acceleration, that energy moves to the front wheels, which support the combustion engine.
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As for automobiles:Though cars were still 23 years off, the internal combustion engine had been invented.
All in all, the Internet may not be quite up there with the internal combustion engine.
Burns says a fuel-cell vehicle has one-tenth the number of parts of a traditional internal combustion engine.
It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
The combustion engine slowly recharges the battery pack when it is not using energy to move the vehicle.
But others said it would take a lot more power than that to replace an internal combustion engine.
One day in the future, a tipping point will occur and the electric car will replace the combustion engine.
There is, however, an alternative: burn the hydrogen in a conventional internal-combustion engine.
The same sort of thing happened when the internal combustion engine came along.
In 1913, Rudolf Diesel, French inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine, disappeared and presumably drowned in the English Channel.
Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.
This slowing effect is used by Lotus to simulate engine braking, in which resistance inside an internal-combustion engine decelerates the car.
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As a distinguished lobby colleague noted, it is like regulating the buggy whip just as the internal combustion engine is coming in.
It bends upward again with the second industrial revolution of the late 1800s built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
So some people might be surprised at my latest venture: retrofitting the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma with a powerful internal combustion engine.
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Over time, the shipyards became centers of expertise in the internal-combustion engine.
It takes another upward bend with the second industrial revolution in the late 1800s, built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
Such technological disruptions from the steam engine and electricity to the internal combustion engine and the transistor used to come once a generation or so.
Even at speeds of up to 75 mph, the internal combustion engine is not engaged as long as the battery has sufficient charge.
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He also outlined some radical ambitions for the next decade including reductions in road traffic and the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine.
"Trying to keep it from happening would have been like the Teamsters in the early 1900s trying to stop the combustion engine, " Lavin says.
An electric boost function helps in instances where maximum acceleration is desired, when the electric motor works in tandem with the combustion engine during acceleration.
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If we are talking about an automobile powered by anything other than, or in addition to, an internal-combustion engine, we are talking about electric motors.
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Several years ago, while sitting on the board of an internal combustion engine startup, I had to nix a proposal to seek a cleantech earmark.
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And beyond that, are racing fans really willing to give up the roar of combustion engine race cars they have known and loved for decades?
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If you were plowing a field in the era before the internal combustion engine, the harness was the only way to get the job done right.
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