combustion
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Launched in 2019, the Taycan was supposed to underscore the Stuttgart-based group's embarkment on a major shift away from combustion engines.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
There is nothing wrong with an internal combustion engine car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The KIT system creates the required pressure inside the combustion chamber instead.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Major hyperscalers and more than a dozen of neocloud companies and AI labs that once might have looked at natural-gas powered and other combustion technologies now choose Bloom as a “superior power solution,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
They look that way when you don’t know much about them—all of those tubes and wires and valves—but mostly the combustion engine hasn’t changed that much since it was invented.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2019
“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”
From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2016
You observe a multitude of little combustions going on, but no flame.
From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes
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