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50 Percent Indian Consumers Ready To Quit Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles. (Photo: DriveSpark)Consumers are willing to share data with manufacturers to improve driving experiences, indicating that safety is still a top priority.Purchasing a car is a big and costly decision. Even though many Indians still consider owning a car to be a dream, in the past fifteen years, the number of first-time car buyers has increased dramatically.This is majorly due to factors like easy car buying processes, a variety of car loan…

Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images)Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Florida after one of its engines burst into flames. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors The plane, which took off from Miami en…

NASA just put its new propulsion system to the test, powering a 3D-printed rotating detonation rocket engine for a sustained burn that lasted three times as long as the first test.Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE, produced more than 5,800 pounds of thrust for a total of 251 seconds (a little longer than four minutes) during a recent test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the space agency announced this week.NASA’s 3D-printed Rotating Detonation…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As early as 2025, an average midsize battery-electric vehicle will be cheaper than a comparable combustion engine vehicle. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The researchers developed a model that they used to assess the expected future costs in the transport sector and look at the resulting scenarios for achieving climate protection…

Yamaha Motor has already pushed to the front of the pack in developing hydrogen engines for automobiles and off-highway off-roaders, and now it's looking to launch its hydrogen-combustion program into the water. A potentially critical piece of its greater carbon neutrality program, Yamaha's new hydrogen outboard prototype will debut at the upcoming 2024 Miami International Boat Show, previewing a cleaner future for boaters and marine consumers. Long before government and industry were rapidly prodding along cleaner, more…

UC Riverside engineers have created a unique liquid fuel that ignites solely through electric current, enhancing safety by eliminating accidental fire risks. This innovative fuel, based on modified ionic liquid, enables controlled combustion and could potentially revolutionize vehicle safety, though further research and cost considerations are necessary. Firefighters extinguishing flames at a gas station. Credit: Thomas HawkChemical engineers at UC Riverside have developed a unique liquid fuel that requires an electric…

Bhopal Airport (Photo: Bhopal Airport)The AAI asked the airport authorities to start replacing the vehicles with with EVs.In a move to contribute to a pollution-free environment, and make the campus a zero carbon emission zone, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) in Bhopal’s Raja Bhoj airport introduced two electric vehicles.It is said that airports are the major producers of carbon emissions as they operate on heavy energy consumption. In order to adapt to the transition of EVs, they are putting all the possible…

VW brand chief Thomas Schäfer said that recent discussion over an e-fuel exception to EU’s 2035 gas car ban is “unnecessary noise” and that “by 2035 are over anyway,” in a recent interview with Automotive News Europe. The interview mostly covered European topics, such as the availability of Volkswagen’s upcoming EVs in Europe. But the VW executive also spoke forcefully about electrification being a no-brainer. The EU was recently about to finalize a plan to ban new internal combustion…

Luxury carmakers’ push for synthetic e-fuels has weakened the European Union’s plan to get internal combustion engines off the road in the future. After weeks of delay, the Council of the European Union adopted regulations today to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from new cars and vans by 2035. That would have amounted to an effective ban on cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) if not for a last-minute update that carves out an exemption for ICE cars that swap out gasoline for e-fuels. E-fuel is a synthetic…

Internal combustion engines are running on borrowed time. The European Union approved on Monday a deal that will lead to the phaseout of sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035, with a final green light by energy ministers due on Tuesday. The 27-nation bloc joins more than a dozen other nations which…