How to Use combustion engine in a Sentence

combustion engine

noun

• Italy is still very attached to combustion engine cars and the automaker lobby is a powerful one.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024
• So most of Dad’s life lessons center on the combustion engine.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Consider that just a few years ago, very few people would have predicted that the end of the combustion engine was in sight.
  — Jennifer Morgan, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2018
• Of course, the Maybach S 580 e has more than just an internal-combustion engine under the hood.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
• Many who made their living shoeing horses were put out by the combustion engine.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
• Even with a lightweight carbon fiber body, things like batteries, a combustion engine, and four leather seats add up to a lot of mass, even for an electric car.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
• How do the number of EVs on Texas roads compare to combustion engine vehicles?
  — Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2022
• The power of the internal-combustion engine could not be denied.
  — oregonlive, 30 May 2022
• Germany just pushed the European Union to give a stay of execution to new combustion engine cars in 2035.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• Dozens of nations have pledged to stop burning coal for power, while the EU and several U.S. states will effectively ban the sale of combustion engine cars in the mid-2030s.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• During that time, EV sales will rise to two-thirds of all vehicles sold, while combustion engine vehicles will shrink from more than 99% to just one-third.
  — National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2021
• Take Tesla: Elon Musk wants to make a profit, of course, but he is also driven by a desire to break our dependence on the toxic combustion engine.
  — Ronald Cohen, Time, 1 Nov. 2021
• But electric vehicles, which draw power from a battery instead of a noisy combustion engine, don’t make much noise at slow speeds.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2020
• This mode will start off under electric power, feeding in the combustion engine as and when necessary.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
• Long distances can be rarer but if required, a PHEV can easily just switch seamlessly to the combustion engine and handle the long summer trip to the sun or the skiing trip, for maybe 400 miles or more.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• This motor can also work as a generator, letting the combustion engine recharge the battery pack when driving in Recharge mode.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• Musk wants to sell 20 million cars a year come the end of the decade, in order to annually replace 1% of the world’s existing 2 billion combustion engine vehicles with EVs.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• Motorsport will be using it in 2026, and European Union law is using it as a stay of execution for the combustion engine.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• Like its peers, Aston Martin has spent recent years outlining a plan to phase out the combustion engine by the end of the decade as part of its transition to making all-electric vehicles.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
• Despite the cost, Ethiopia’s vehicle fleet has seen a gradual but sustained rise in the number of EVs displacing combustion engine cars.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
• And the competition in electric vehicles and combustion engine cars may even increase as growth slows.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• As part of its ambitious Green Deal plan to cut emissions, the EU has implemented an effective ban on combustion engine cars starting in 2035.
  — Kevin Whitelaw, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• According to Metro Fire, a fire in a typical combustion engine can be extinguished with about 700 gallons of water.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• The thyroid is like the carburetor in an old internal-combustion engine.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• By contrast, the triumph of the internal-combustion engine (ICE) over a century ago was organic.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 19 Jan. 2023
• In lieu of the multispeed transmission in a combustion engine, a small EV transmission produces enough torque across a wide range of speeds for the car to accelerate quickly using a single gear.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• That may seem like very little, but that is out of a highly fragmented auto market, combustion engine cars included.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• From Reuters: Deliveries in China were down by nearly 20% amid a wider decline in sales of combustion engine cars which still make up the majority of Volkswagen’s line-up in the country.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 July 2024
• And this is because their motor, battery, circuitry, and charger are more expensive to produce than a combustion engine.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2021
• Also known as a PHEV, these cars combine a combustion engine with a relatively small battery that powers an electric motor.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024