combustion
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By 2028, the split between internal combustion and electrical power will be 60:40 in favour of the internal combustion engine, when it is more like 53:47 now.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Launched in 2019, the Taycan was supposed to underscore the Stuttgart-based group's embarkment on a major shift away from combustion engines.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
There is nothing wrong with an internal combustion engine car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Management also highlighted that demand remains good despite its price increases in its internal combustion engine vehicle and electric vehicle portfolios, the analysts note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
All the advancements of art and science—electricity, the internal combustion engine, the theory of relativity, cubism—had to be explained, and even then they often didn’t make sense.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2019
“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”
From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2016
Hence, no new combustions or oxygenations can happen without destroying this equilibrium, and raising the combustible substances to a superior degree of temperature.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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