No one can question the fact NASA is the world’s leading space exploration organization. Knowing this would have one believe NASA became that because it focuses long and hard on its main area of ...

Formula 1 cars have some excellent thermal efficiency, with even the best mainstream cars just scraping under their potential ...

Geely's new hybrid powertrain can achieve a 48.4 percent thermal efficiency.

Recent advances in the analysis of aviation engine efficiency and sustainability have expanded the understanding of engine performance beyond traditional energy metrics. Researchers are increasingly ...

Electric concept cars seem to steal the spotlight at auto shows these days, with their flashy futuristic looks and promises of amazing battery range. And many if not most cars will get some form of ...

One famous limit of thermodynamics is that heat engines, like steam engines and internal combustion engines, must be less efficient than a Carnot heat engine (a heat engine cycle designed by French ...

Getting from A to B by most means of transport is polluting; incomplete combustion of fuels releases soot and unburned fuel into the atmosphere, along with greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide and ...

Here in 2019, only the most fringe reactionaries are able to claim with a straight face that climate change is not a thing. But after years of the media doing its “two sides” thing, recalcitrant ...

Pratt & Whitney thinks the aerospace industry might need a bit more time to achieve a broad goal of squeezing at least 20% more efficiency out of the next generation of narrowbody aircraft engines.

Every fleet strives to achieve two things when it comes to engines. The first is to maintain efficiency in order to reduce operating and service costs. The other is to ensure the longest possible ...

Engine power is a product of its overall displacement, but two similarly-sized engines with different bore and stroke ...