How to Use internal combustion engine in a Sentence

internal combustion engine

noun

• The same goes for other prewar land speed record challengers with their rubber tires and internal combustion engines.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• Just like an internal combustion engine, the electric motor generates a lot of power-sapping heat.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
• Normal mode gives the driver a modicum more pep with the tradeoff of having to move your foot to the brake pedal to slow down, aping the feel of an internal combustion engine.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2024
• Instead of an internal combustion engine, each axle sports its own asynchronous electric motor, each of which features a cooling lance running through it.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2018
• The internal combustion engine is under attack from electric challengers.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• More than half of the value of internal combustion engine vehicles comes from supplier components.
  — Justin Worland / Detroit, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• Protectionism failed to create any world-beating Chinese car makers in the era of the internal combustion engine.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 25 June 2019
• Things like the United Kingdom’s proposed ban on internal combustion engines, most of which run on oil products, for example.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 18 Oct. 2018
• The battery charges through regenerative energy gained from braking and the internal combustion engine, too.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
• The end of the road for the internal combustion engine in Europe is now in sight.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
• Around the world, cities and countries are starting to plan for the end of the internal combustion engine.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2022
• The same trend was seen with the internal combustion engine.
  — Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2024
• The country will end the sales of internal combustion engine cars in 2025.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• His internal combustion engine is more than twice the size of yours.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
• But there’s no time like the present for a stunt that proclaims to the world that Ford is indeed hip to the global shift away from the internal combustion engine.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 23 July 2019
• The vocals may be gruff, but this makes a fine swansong for the internal combustion engine.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• An internal combustion engine is loud and masks the noises a tire makes.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
• Much to our dismay, one of the greatest pony cars since the invention of the internal combustion engine now joins that list.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2020
• The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been the mechanism of choice for vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• Without the rumpus of an internal combustion engine, wind roar and tire slap sound all the louder.
  — Brett Berk, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
• But the powertrain plays a part as well: the front and rear MGUs both have 2ms response times, which Porsche says is five times faster than its internal combustion engines.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2019
• And EVs need a lot of chips—easily twice as many as an internal combustion engine car.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2022
• In Germany, the historic home of the internal combustion engine, plug-ins accounted for about a quarter of sales last year.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
• Aside from the low tax, what makes Europe attractive is the bloc’s decision to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2035.
  — Laura He, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
• The car was just fine (and certainly goes from 0-60 miles an hour more quickly than my internal combustion engine).
  — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
• One of these works as the starter motor and as a generator driven by the internal combustion engine to charge the 1.2kWh lithium-ion battery that lives above the rear axle.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 June 2020
• Despite the lack of an internal combustion engine, the iX looks unmistakably like a BMW, massive black grille and all.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020
• Plus mode brought the battery to a 50-percent state of charge, which was enough energy to get me back home again without firing up the internal combustion engine.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2020
• Which is cheaper to own: An EV or internal combustion engine car?
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024