It’s that time of year when 87 of the world’s most respected motoring journalists decide who makes the best powertrains

It befuddles me how some engine-use strategies can possibly make it all the way through group approvals by educated, mature men and women at multimillion or -billion buck companies, only to have it dawn too late that, oops, they missed something glaringly important along the way

Think of renewable energy and I’ll bet you good money that your first thought is of longhaired hippies in baggy trousers.