Love child

摘要

Our beloved gasoline engine is taking heavy flak. Plug-ins and hydrogen fuel cells are gunning for it, pricey new clean diesels are making inroads, and congress is threatening to repeat failed history by cranking up CAFE again. The pressure's so great that mad scientists around the globe are at work on unnatural crossbreeding of engines to combine the brawn and efficiency of Rudolph Diesel's brainchild with the cheap, high-revving power of Nicholas Otto's spark-ignition engine.