combustion engine

American  

noun

1. any of various types of engines driven by energy produced by combustion.

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Example Sentences

“For example, consumers must sell their internal combustion engine vehicles and buy electric vehicles, but this can be cost-prohibitive, especially if oil price settles back into the range where it has been over the last couple of years. The cost of turning over capital stocks is high, and is typically avoided.”

From Salon

Beyond the vibrations, Honda's power-unit is down on power from both the internal combustion engine and electrical system, which can neither recover nor deploy energy at the full permitted 350kW rate.

From BBC

Tangen invited her onto his regular podcast that dropped on Tuesday and the jumping off point was Lagarde’s analogy of the present era with the 1920s when the combustion engine and the manufacturing played the roles now occupied by the development and diffusion of artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch

The hybrid engine is lacking power from the internal combustion engine and its electrical elements are not able to work at the full 350kw limit.

From BBC

It is believed that this accident is the first such between horse-drawn vehicle and internal combustion engine in the twentieth century here in the Hoosier heartland.

From Literature