Petrol power here to stay
January 19, 2016
Electric cars might be grabbing the headlines at motor shows around the world, but petrol- and diesel-powered internal combustion engines in cars might just outlive us all.
The drawn-out death of the internal-combustion engine (ICE) will not happen in the lifetime of anybody with a driver’s license, Daimler’s head of development has insisted.
“Will the end of internal-combustion engine come? We will not live to see it,” Daimler’s Director of Development, Dr Thomas Weber, insisted last week.
“It will change dramatically, but it will still exist. The end game is not black and white for internal combustion engines,” the most senior engineer in the world’s oldest car company said.
Weber has committed to delivering 10 plug-in hybrid Mercedes-Benz models this year, its GLC-based production hydrogen fuel-cell car next year and its first full-sized production electric car the year after, but that doesn’t mean his engineers are finished with petrol and diesel power.
While they will exist long into the future – up to 50 years into the future of the car industry – they’ll be barely recognizable, but they’ll still be there...
http://www.motoring.com.au/petrol-power-here-to-stay-100963/
Engines of the Future
December 2015
by Robert M. Wagner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/engines-of-the-future
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-internal-combustion-engines-here-stay-manas-koallay
