Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

The European Union is abandoning its plan to require all new cars to be zero emission from 2035, replacing the hard ban on combustion engines with a softer emissions target that keeps some fossil-fuel ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Takashi Ayoma / Getty, Antonio Calanni / AP Formula 1’s car design revolution for 2026 is the biggest in a generation. Not only are the chassis designs ...

The year 2025 brought into the spotlight a new company whose stated goal is to come up with revolutionary internal combustion engines (ICE) that could be used as standalone pieces of equipment, or as ...

Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation. For as long as internal ...

Researchers from Skoltech have published a paper in the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena presenting an analysis of steady propagating combustion waves—from slow flames to supersonic detonation ...