Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Takashi Ayoma / Getty, Antonio Calanni / AP Formula 1’s car design revolution for 2026 is the biggest in a generation. Not only are the chassis designs ...

The year 2025 brought into the spotlight a new company whose stated goal is to come up with revolutionary internal combustion engines (ICE) that could be used as standalone pieces of equipment, or as ...

The European Union is abandoning its plan to require all new cars to be zero emission from 2035, replacing the hard ban on combustion engines with a softer emissions target that keeps some fossil-fuel ...

Europe’s flagship plan to end sales of new petrol and diesel cars has been dramatically scaled back after a fierce backlash from industry and key member states. Instead of a hard phaseout of ...