The Auto Industry Has Been Perfecting the Internal Combustion Engine

question 2

Multiple Choice

The auto industry has been perfecting the internal combustion engine (ICE) for some 120 years. Billions of dollars of work is ongoing at all of the auto companies on alternatives to ICEs. A cooperative program between the Big Three and government to replace ICEs with electric engines has been operating since 1993. What is the internal combustion engine (ICE) an example of?

• A)a dominant design  
• B)design dichotomy  
• C)a synergistic design  
• D)a differential design

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