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German chancellor pushes EU to soften 2035 combustion engine car ban

In September, the Commission said it would bring forward a review of the rules to give the industry more planning certainty. Credit: Mounir Taha/Shutterstock.com. German chancellor Friedrich Merz is ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
Motor Trend

5 Forgotten Internal Combustion Engines You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Automotive engineers have invested countless billions trying to improve upon the humble internal combustion engine, but not all those efforts have translated well. In fact, sometimes, things got weird ...
The Conversation

Banning combustion engine cars by 2035 will be necessary to get Australia moving on electric vehicles

Hussein Dia receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the iMOVE Australia Cooperative Research Centre, Transport for New South Wales, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, ...
Variety

Why Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Is Looking to Grow in Animation

‘Animation companies are under pressure, being asked to do more with less each year.’ Enter Unreal Engine, Epic Games’ Rob Di Figlia argued at MipJunior In unveils, Di Figlia sneak-peeked a 90-second ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Germany to Push for Flexibility in EU’s Combustion-Engine Ban

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling alliance united behind his bid to force the European Union to be more flexible in its 2035 ban on new combustion-engine vehicles. The conservative leader has ...
The Drive

Porsche’s Rumored Plan for Boxster, Cayman Signals Internal Combustion Will Soon Be a Luxury

The Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman were to go all-electric in their next generations, but now the automaker has doubled back on that plan, to the delight of many enthusiasts. The question now is how ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Merz Urges EU to Lift Combustion Engine Ban as Industry Declines

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on the European Union to give up its 2035 deadline to effectively ban combustion engines and instead allow the troubled car industry to pursue a softer path to ...
autoweek

The European Union Reconsiders its 2035 Internal-Combustion Ban

In 2022, the European Union voted to ban sales of internal-combustion vehicles by 2035, with phase-out targets along the way. With the rate of adoption of electric and electrified vehicles since ...
Jalopnik

This Internal Combustion Engine Didn't Need Oil, At Least On Paper

Ford once sketched a road where an engine's pistons never saw oil and engines ran hotter on purpose. In a late‑1980s patent application filed and granted in Europe, the company described an "uncooled ...