Porsche W18: the engine patented amid an electric crisis Let’s do an exercise together. Picture the following situation. You’re a Porsche AG executive in October 2025. Your group’s full-year operating profit has just collapsed 93%, from €5.640 billion to €413 million (or 98% if you include the €4.7 billion writedowns from abandoning parts of the … Read more
Achates Power: the engine Aramco has been funding for 8 years This one I’ll tell you backwards, because the conclusion is stronger than the opening. When we published the Aramco DHE article a few weeks ago, we framed it as a new move. A brilliant move, but new. Aramco pulls a hybrid-purpose petrol engine out … Read more
Bosch, MAHLE and AVL: Europe hasn’t quit combustion Across five articles, NEC has been telling you how the combustion engine game is being played in 2026. If you’ve reached this one, you probably hold a simple idea in your head: Europe has surrendered. The Chinese push ahead, the Japanese hold the line, the Saudis manoeuvre … Read more
Mazda Iconic SP: the last romantic still betting on the engine Across four articles, NEC has been telling you how the combustion engine game is being played in 2026. We’ve explained how Aramco designs cheap engines to keep petrol alive. We’ve explained how Horse Powertrain quietly assembles the planet’s largest combustion-engine supplier. We’ve explained how … Read more
Toyota GRMN Corolla: an engine born in a hydrogen race While Europe shuts engine plants and the Chinese exploit the gap to build petrol engines with Formula 1-grade thermal efficiency, Toyota has been quietly doing something nobody else dared try. Something almost nobody has reported seriously. Something that landed, two days ago, in a road … Read more
Chinese engines: the war Europe didn’t want to see You’ve been told the same story for years. The petrol engine is dying. The future is electric. Internal combustion is the past. Repeated often enough that most people now believe it without checking. So let’s check. While Europe was busy closing engine plants and German manufacturers … Read more
MA-FIA II: The e-Fuels Lobby — How F1 Became Saudi Arabia’s Trojan Horse 35 barrels a day of “sustainable” fuel. 9 million barrels a day of crude oil. And a PR machine lobbying the European Parliament so you can’t buy a petrol car in 2035… while they keep pumping oil until the end of time. … Read more
