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Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that it is continuing funding for a new diesel outboard engine for the Royal Navy’s rigid inflatable craft.

The British Army's new Foxhound is a quick, lightweight vehicle with unprecedented levels of blast protection.

A new zero-emissions engine capable of competing with battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell systems appeared on the radar yesterday when respected engineering consultancy Ricardo validated the Dearman engine and its commercial potential.

Williams F1 has increased its shareholding in Williams Hybrid Power to 78% on the back of favorable racetrack results and growing confidence its hybrid technology will find application in cars, buses, trains, ships and wind power generation.

The driverless car of the future is getting closer every day, as more and more technologies come along that take critical jobs away from the driver and put them in the hands of lightning-fast, all-seeing computers. One of the latest and most ambitious of these systems has just been successfully demo

Automotive technology specialist Ricardo has revealed the development of technology that optimizes ethanol-fuelled engines to a level of performance that exceeds gasoline engine efficiency and approaches levels previously reached only by diesel engines.

September 9, 2008 The once poor cousin of the gas-burning internal combustion engine, the diesel, is slowly but surely invading the world of motorsport. In recent years the all-conquering Audi team led the diesel assault on sports car racing and diesel now dominates these events. Now Mitsubishi will

Ricardo today announced the completion of an advanced prototype research program based on the highly innovative 2/4SIGHT concept - a gasoline engine that uses novel combustion, boosting, control and valve actuation technologies to enable automatic and seamless switching between two- and four-stroke

AFS Trinity’s Extreme Hybrid (XH) technology employs a proprietary dual energy storage system that combines Lithium-Ion batteries and ultra capacitors with control electronics... and with

January 15, 2007 One of the most brutal cars on the road will become even moreso next year when the Dodge Viper SRT10 will be packing 90 extra horsepower from

December 8, 2006 Delegates at Berlin’s prestigious 5th International CTI-Symposium, “Innovative Automotive Transmissions” , were this week given the opportuni

August 25, 2006 Last Friday (August 18) , the JCB DIESELMAX broke the Bonneville record speed for diesel engines, setting a time of 317 mph . On Tuesday (Au