The End of the Internal Combustion Engine
09-20-2019, 03:41 AM
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“The company that makes Mercedes-Benz luxury sedans and Daimler trucks on Thursday announced a halt to its internal combustion engine development programs as part of efforts to shift to the production of electric vehicles (EVs). It also said resources allocated for the development of internal combustion engines and transmission development will be reallocated.”
09-20-2019, 06:52 AM
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They'll probably find they still need them for many trucks, the fuel might be H2 or biofuel. Although electric motors powered by fuels cells powered by green fuel could work too.
09-20-2019, 11:08 PM
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If you read the poorly written article, they aren't stopping production of internal combustion engines, they just aren't pouring R&D into entirely new engines. It doesn't even say they aren't going to invest in changes to the engines they already have. Just not going to develop completely new ones.
09-21-2019, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Baradium
If you read the poorly written article, they aren't stopping production of internal combustion engines, they just aren't pouring R&D into entirely new engines. It doesn't even say they aren't going to invest in changes to the engines they already have. Just not going to develop completely new ones.
Also... there's almost no possible efficiency gains remaining to be had in small (automotive) gas engines. It's evolved about as far as it can.
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