Meanwhile, in 1860, Lenoir created the first internal combustion engine by burning gas inside a cylinder, and in 1867, the German Nikolaus August Otto had the idea of making one that used gasoline, ...

The first internal-combustion engine to operate successfully on the four-stroke cycle was built in 1876 by Nicolaus August Otto. His "Silent Otto" was a good machine with a poor theory ...

Nikolaus Otto was a German-born engineer whose labors led to the creation of compressed charge internal combustion engines. These, fuelled by petroleum gas, resulted in the creation of the modern ...

When we convert the ethanol, we make hydrocarbons – carbon and hydrogen together – exactly what you derive from fossil fuels and what the engine combusts ... By contrast, a combustion ...

Automakers prefer to hype up their future EVs, while internal combustion engines become little more than a footnote in press releases. Although that’s increasingly the norm, some companies are bucking ...

Nissan has dialed back its plans to go all-electric, but there's good and bad news for its combustion ambitions too.

While the brand had originally planned to cease development of internal combustion vehicles in 2026, with plans to transition to a fully electric lineup as soon as 2033, Audi now says it will ...

A hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2-ICE) for commercial vehicles has been developed by a consortium of technology companies. Cummins, along with partners Johnson Matthey, PHINIA, and ...