was the internal combustion engine which fundamentally transformed individual mobility. Our brief history of the internal combustion engine relates the tale ... own gas engine and fuelled by a turpentine derivative - thus earning it the distinction of the first vehicle with an internal combustion engine. Unlike ... explosive combustion inside the engine. However, the hippomobile never made it beyond the development stage: It was too heavy, and its two-stroke engine was

limit values for particulate matter now apply to all petrol engines and not only to those engines with direct injection, as used to be the case. In the future ... this respect, Euro 7 will continue to have an effect even when no new combustion engines are registered in the EU,” Schmidt explains. What role does brake ... from tyre abrasion will soon exceed the particulate emissions from combustion engines,” says Schmidt. “As a result, the overall reduction in particulate

light commercial vehicles. With one exception: New cars with internal combustion engines will be approved if they run exclusively on synthetic and 100 percent ... petrol or diesel. This means that they can also be used in normal combustion engines without conversion, provided that the manufacturer has approved the ... because their production requires an enormous amount of energy, and combustion engines are incomparably less efficient than electric motors. During the

about it. I originally studied mechanical engineering, because I wanted to have hands-on contact with engines. Electric vehicles with high-voltage technology ... touch, were initially not my area of choice. My starting point is the combustion engine and I have worked intensively in the area of emissions reduction . ... electric car is superior in every respect to a car powered by an internal combustion engine when it comes to performance and acceleration, torque, the emissions

cars catch fire in Germany. The vast majority of them have internal combustion engines. When electric cars aren’t involved, however, these fires are usually ... an electric car? In actual fact, I still have car with an internal combustion engine – a vintage convertible from 1989. But this is more of a car for a ... risk of catching fire for technical and physical reasons: they run on a combustible liquid fuel that tends to evaporate and can explode. If, for example,

shortens engine lifetimes. This was when the engine air intake filter was born, which can still be found in every internal combustion engine today. A test ... including online. In a short interview, Dirk Renschen from DMT reveals the purpose of such “test dusts”, how to develop them and what lies behind so-called

long time the orthodox model was to use the explosive gas to power combustion engines, fuel cell drive technology has since prevailed. This works like an ... prospect of a longer range and can be refuelled almost as quickly as a combustion engine – at least, according to the arguments of the hydrogen advocates. However

of a steam engine, which worked using pistons and cylinders. This was followed in 1698 by a steam-powered device invented by British engineer Thomas Savery ... thoroughly sophisticated. Engineer Thomas Newcomen perfected the process in 1712 and developed the atmospheric steam engine. Although this was a great ... Technology with explosive force The development of the steam engine inspired researchers and engineers to come up with a continuous stream of new applications

this: with the Transrapid, the track acts also as the drive system – the engine is rolled out as a copper cable over the entire route. With the TSB, on ... can no longer communicate? If this happens, it will to all intents and purposes cease to exist for the other vehicles. So, I check if there’s a requirement ... have to be able to switch the ventilation off to prevent the ingress of combustion gases from the burning part of the train. These mutually dependent re

thrust is needed from the engines to overcome it. That the engines make so much noise in the first place is due to the combustion of the fuel and the enormously ... progress here, for example through the development of the turbofan engine. In this type of engine, some of the air bypasses the compression core, providing a ... silencer. Because these engines also consume less kerosene, they are now standard on virtually all civil aircraft with engines. A special feature, however