While electric vehicle sales are slowly taking off around the world, the majority of cars on the roads still run on gasoline.

Gas-powered cars have been getting more and more efficient since they were first put to use more than 100 years ago. The most efficient engines out there can transfer 50 percent of the potential ...

The combustion engines in gas-powered cars can produce a lot of power by burning dead dinosaurs, but they’re surprisingly inefficient at it, with most of the energy they consume — an estimated three ...

Internal combustion engines have long received flack for how wasteful they are. And while you can't argue about how inefficient they may be, the truth is that internal combustion has led the way for ...

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel's potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study demonstrates how to convert exhaust ...