The internal combustion engine is not necessarily buried in the grave because the EU wants it to be. Porsche's new patent could be the salvation.
Most internal combustion engines today call for a four-stroke system, but if you ask the engineers at Porsche, it can easily be done with six.
The system, for which the car brand has just received a patent in the USA, divides the combustion and thus the compression into six parts and two three-quarter sequences.
This is what Motor1.com writes on the basis of the patent that the US Patent and Trademark Office has published.
The disadvantage of the six-stroke engine is a more complicated construction, the advantage is even more horsepower from the engine itself. However, whether Porsche intends to use the patent for anything remains to be seen.
But it at least indicates that the folks from Zuffenhausen haven't given up on the combustion engine completely yet. The same applies to other car brands.
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For example, Ferrari has taken out a patent for an inverted V6 engine, i.e. where the cylinder head is upside down, which burns hydrogen.
Another indication that Porsche is sticking with the internal combustion engine is the brand's development of synthetic gasoline. As recently as August, the car brand was pushing to find greater support for the technology.
Right now, Porsche is using the so-called e-fuel, which the brand can produce itself, in racing cars. But one would very much like to see the synthetic droplets removed to the petrol stations and thus to the public.
BMW and Toyota are also working on burning synthetic petrol. The Japanese, like Ferrari, are toying with the idea of burning hydrogen in internal combustion engines.
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