Miles

A Rally Champion Drove a Skoda 1,759 Miles on a Single Tank

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A Rally Champion Drove a Skoda 1,759 Miles on a Single Tank

The diesel engine is gradually fading. Even in Europe, the last stronghold of the oil-burner, demand has plummeted in recent years. At its peak, diesel accounted for more than 50 percent of new car sales in the early 2010s, obviously before the Volkswagen Group’s notorious scandal. Through August this year, its market share among new … Read more

This Tiny Engine Fits In a Briefcase. But It Could Boost Your EV’s Range by Hundreds of Miles

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This Tiny Engine Fits In a Briefcase. But It Could Boost Your EV's Range by Hundreds of Miles

Despite a significant focus on electric vehicles by much of the industry, combustion engines are proving hard to kill. Companies are still pouring billions into development, and Horse Powertrain, the Romanian company behind the engine that runs on liquified petroleum gas, has another new engine that can turn an EV into a range-extended vehicle. The … Read more