Cummins/ Achates Diesel
Do you think the new Diesel motor designed for the military will make it's way into consumer vehicles?
Forum Discussion
hone eagle wrote:noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?
Because motors use energy to make work (electric motors)and engines burn fuel to make energy.
My apologies for the following Cliff Claven moment...
While that's the definition I like, it is by no means official.
There's nothing in engineering that states a motor must be electric driven. To the contrary, the technical definition of a motor describes a device that among other things, can be an powered an internal combustion engine.
Definition of "motor"
OTOH, a Cummins engine is certainly that; an engine.
