Michigan State University is developing a novel generator for use in hybrid automobile engines. Nearly 85 percent of automobile fuel is wasted. Only 15 percent of fuel is actually used for propulsion.

Wave Disc Engine. Michigan State will complete its prototype development of a new gas-fueled electricity generator, five times more efficient than traditional auto engines in electricity production, ...

The mid-term future for fuel efficient vehicles with useful range is likely a hybrid solution of electric motors powered by batteries, topped up by a fuel-burning generator. Dr. Norbert Müller at ...

Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine.

A disc-shaped shock wave generator is about 45% more efficient than ordinary combustion engines. Those attending the DoE's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit ...

Despite several attempts to take technology in a different direction, Gottlieb Daimler's century-plus-old still invention of the internal combustion engine still reigns supreme - though it's not been ...

Antony Ingram April 11, 2011 Comment Now! There may be life in the old dog yet - engines have never been the cleanest of machines, requiring fossil fuels for their power and releasing all manner of ...