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Internal combustion engine traction - Overall architecture

Authors: Pierre CHAPAS, Dominique COIFFET

Publication date: May 10, 2015, Review date: July 1, 2015

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1. Definitions and breakdown of traction modes

Means of transport exist thanks to the energy developed by different sources, originally reduced to two:

  • energy from animals or man for land transport; traction is said to be "autonomous";

  • propulsion generated by the force of the wind, available to ships all along their journey at sea.

1.1 Autonomous drive

A motor vehicle is said to be self-propelled when it has the necessary energy source on board.

The railroad began and developed, thanks to the fuel (coal) needed to produce steam, which moved a piston in a cylinder to drive the axles.

From the 1930s onwards, the development of the internal combustion engine (gasoline...

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