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Following a concept world premiere in 2022 and a track demo at Le Mans a couple months ago, the Alpine Alpenglow is back, this time serving as a spectacular highlight of the 2024 Paris Motor Show. Alpine has equipped the latest Alpenglow with an all-ne… Continue reading Water-injected hydrogen combustion V6 doubles up power
LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it’s prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: LiquidPiston, Engine Technolo… Continue reading ‘Inside-out Wankel’ engine powers US Army’s tiny new 10-kW genset
LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it’s prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: LiquidPiston, Engine Technolo… Continue reading ‘Inside-out Wankel’ engine powers US Army’s tiny new 10-kW genset
Intake, compression, power, then exhaust. Every 4-stroke engine ever made – about 80% of all engines currently in existence – function on this principle – even rotary engines. But now, Porsche has filed a patent to make a 6-stroke engine.Continue Readi… Continue reading Porsche’s 6-stroke engine doubles up on power and compression
This fire-breathing 27-liter 1,800-horsepower Roll-Royce Merlin aero engine famously powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Lancaster and Mosquito WW2 aircraft. It has been mounted on a trailer for demo purposes. It really is a sight to behold and f… Continue reading Video: This 1,800-bhp Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine is a beast
Something of an automotive phenom, Munich startup DeepDrive is hard at work on a more practical, mass production-ready in-wheel electric motor. Its unique radial flux motor concept uses a dual-rotor configuration to produce copious amounts of torque fr… Continue reading Is this radical two-rotor hub motor the secret to cheap 500-mile EVs?
In an effort to create a simpler, more affordable form of jet propulsion, University of Maryland spinoff Wave Engine Corporation has developed a digitally controlled modern-day pulsejet engine for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a design that uses no … Continue reading Fire-spewing pulsejet engine with no moving parts gets real
The Wärtsilä 31 engine is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most efficient 4-stroke marine engine ever made in its class. It also boasts the highest power per cylinder in engines of equivalent bore size. It can be configured in 8 to 1… Continue reading World’s most efficient engine becomes a colossal clean energy generator
Michael Arsenaeu designed the Avadi engine 20 years ago in the hopes of creating an entirely new engine design to be efficient as well as reduce emissions. In 2015, Avadi began the build and development.Continue ReadingCategory: TransportTags: concept … Continue reading Super-compact internally rotating combustion engine packs a solid punch
Wave Engine Corp has aced a demonstration flight of a simple jet engine with no moving parts. A modern version of a pulsejet, the J-1 engine powered a UAV through take-off and several mid-air stop/starts before the aircraft nailed the landing.Continue … Continue reading Video: Wave Engine’s UAV test flight brings pulsejet into 21st century