For the next 55 years, internal combustion engines ruled the roads.

在接下来的55年里，内燃机主宰了道路。

So now I work at the muffler shop. -Why?

所以现在我在一家(内燃机)消声器店工作。-为什么？

Volvo is the second large car company to say it will stop making traditional internal combustion engines.

沃尔沃是第二家宣布将停止生产传统内燃机的大型汽车公司。

Fuel for combustion-powered engines has been hard to find for years in Cuba.

多年来，古巴一直很难找到内燃机燃。

These explosions also create CO2, and ICE engines produce 15% of the total global carbon emissions.

这些爆炸也会产生二氧化碳，而内燃机产生的碳排放量占全球总排放量的 15%。

And then very quickly you have small gas engines, and you have items which are consumer items.

然后很快就又有了小型内燃机，有了商业化的版本。

There's hydrogen fuel cells, batteries that run on hydrogen, or hydrogen-combustion engines, engines that use hydrogen as fuel.

有燃电池，使的电池，或内燃机，即以为燃的发动机。

It's still going to be less… energy efficient. Whether it's an electric car or an internal combustion-powered car.

它仍然会更不节能——无论是电动汽车还是内燃机汽车。

Over time it became the handmaiden of inventions, such as the internal-combustion engine, which massively lifted living standards.

渐渐地，科学成为了发明创造的基础，如内燃机引擎，这些发明极大地提高了生活水平。

The exact properties that make gasoline so dangerous, also make it the perfect fuel to power this engine.

让汽油非常危险的那些性质 现在却让它成为了内燃机的绝好燃。

Dr. Plimpton, Penny is a waitress who doesn't understand the role gasoline plays in the internal combustion engine.

普林顿博士 这是佩妮 一名不理解内燃机需要汽油做燃的服务生。

Since electric cars don't have an internal combustion engine like gas-powered vehicles do, they use their space quite differently.

因为电动汽车不像汽油动力汽车那样有内燃机，它们的使空间非常不同。

Internal-combustion engines, which power 499 out of 500 cars on the road today, would have to all but vanish.

内燃机驱动汽车也得消失，如今，在公路上行驶的500辆汽车中，有499辆是由内燃机驱动的。

Renault also launched a joint venture with Geely, a Chinese carmaker, to make internal-combustion, hybrid and plug-in hybrid engines.

雷诺还与吉利(中国汽车制造商)成立了一家合资企业，生产内燃机、混合动力和插电式混合动力引擎。

With increasing reliance on electric mobility and sustainable fuels, the phase-out of the internal combustion engine has already begun.

随着对电动汽车和可持续燃的日益依赖，内燃机的逐步淘汰已经开始。

For example, in Europe, they want to phase out combustion engine vehicles that use petrol or diesel by 2035.

例如在欧洲，他们希望到 2035 年逐步淘汰使汽油或柴油的内燃机汽车。

At the same time, oil discoveries lowered the price of gasoline, and new advances made internal combustion engines more appealing.

与此同时，石油的发现降低了汽油的价格，新的技术进步使内燃机更具吸引力。

Auto makers, for example, don't want to phase out combustion engine cars quite as quickly as the European Union does.

还例如，汽车制造商不希望像欧盟那样迅速淘汰内燃机汽车。

He said some carmakers will keep making models with traditional engines, known as internal combustion engines, for about 10 years.

他说，在大约10年的时间里，一些汽车制造商将继续生产采传统内燃机发动机的车型。

But imagine that the internal combustion engine could be set aside and we could design the soundscape of our future.

不过想象一下把内燃机搁置一旁，我们来设计未来的声音风景。