After more than a century and a half of development and improvements, the internal combustion engine’s thermal efficiency is still a joke compared to electric motors. That’s because of the more ...

It doesn’t matter where you stand on the EV adoption scale—when you get down to it, electric cars are machines, and machines are cool. Up until now, I’d never given much thought to electric motor ...

Khris is a Mechanical Engineer and a classic car aficionado, who adores his Jags, Alfas, and old-school American muscle cars. He keeps tabs on everything from super exotics like an old EB 110 to the ...

Car engines have used motor oil for the whole of automotive history, and during that time a lot of myths have cropped up ...

Munro & Associates tear down a pair of electric motors from General Motors and Tesla. What their engineers found are two completely different approaches to cooling. One prioritizes simplicity, while ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Any enthusiast will be able to tell you the seat-of-the-pants characteristics of their favorite engine. The torque-peakiness of an Eighties turbo car, the endless rev-hungry climb of a naturally ...

This technology sometimes also goes by "externally" or "electrically" excited, but the idea is basically just like that BMW is using in its new iX EVs: Instead of permanent magnets, the rotor features ...

Electric vehicles don’t use oil in the traditional sense because their electric motors generally don’t have oil in them that needs to be changed as do gasoline engines, but EVs may use other ...