Gas turbine engines, most commonly encountered deafening you in the back row of a cross-country commercial flight, have also been used in automobiles, and prototype automobiles, for over 60 years. If ...

Give it wheels and a steering mechanism, and people will try to power it with anything they can. Visionary (and not-so-visionary) tinkerers and engineers have experimented with everything from steam ...

LOS ANGELES _ California, New York and other states scrambling to head off an expected summertime power crunch are looking toward the same turbines that power commercial jetliners. The quest for ...

From the consumer-tested Chrysler Turbine to the race-winning Howmet TX, this guide explores the bold era of jet-powered ...

The engine is the lifeblood of a car. It converts fuel, usually gasoline, into physical motion that turns the wheels and makes the vehicles go. Over the years, as technology advanced, so too did ...

For more than 100 years, the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been the mechanism of choice for vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Across all configurations, the principle is the same: a mix of fuel ...

The thing about the massive industrial conglomerates you'll find in Japan and South Korea is that sometimes, the work of one random group influences a seemingly unrelated other branch of the company.

Publicity photo of a first-generation Union Pacific GTEL locomotive and a circa-1923 electric auto in Fremont, Neb. The auto was owned by a local woman and the locomotive was on its way west to haul ...

For years, the defense and military communities have been faced with increasing pressure to incorporate advanced Prognostic Health Management (PHM) solutions into high-value turbine jet engines.

GE Marine has been contracted to supply an aeroderivative marine gas turbine engine as part of the “combined diesel electric and gas turbine propulsion system” to power the U.S. Navy’s new ...