We're not going to get into the whole "who made the first car" argument today. But there's not much doubt that the overall history of self-propelled vehicles goes back well beyond the Mercedes Patent ...

Subaru engineers took traditional anti-lag technology and developed something far more unusual: an external combustion device ...

DETROIT, MI -- The buzz at the SAE 2008 World Congress here was over a water-lubricated external combustion engine that uses steam to power automobiles, lawn mowers and stationary generators. Known as ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

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