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.
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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The S3D application models the underlying turbulent combustion of fuels in an internal 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.
But others said it would take a lot more power than that to replace an internal 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.
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.
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.
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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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.
The technology isn't new-a patent for a hydrogen internal combustion engine was issued in 1928, and a 20hp fuel-cell tractor was demonstrated in the late 1950s.
It's powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine that turns a 44-kilowatt electric generator that runs eight propellers and whatever communications equipment is loaded on board.
The sense of moving through the world without the sound of an internal combustion engine roaring up in front is one that I could get used to.
In the mean time we just have to deal with gas, and I am sure some day a new technology will eventually replace the internal combustion engine.
All this from a company founded a century ago that's making a product that hasn't fundamentally changed since then: an internal combustion engine bolted between two rubber wheels.
Everybody wants to talk about what kind of alternative vehicle we'll be driving next, but I've got news for you: The internal combustion gasoline engine isn't going anywhere.
It can be used to run an internal combustion engine in a car or power one using a fuel cell, with heat and water as the only emissions.
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The internal-combustion engine will still be king of the road in the early 2020s, when only a fifth of cars sold in Europe will be hybrid or electric.
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