ICE please define the what is means?

Internal Combustion Engine

 

I'm partial to "engine". Terse, succinct. Why load up a noun with two superflous qualifiers:

Internal <as opposed to external??
Combustion <isn't that the name of the game??

The reason, as far as I can see: everyone's in love with 3 letter acronyms, for the last decade or so.

I could go on..., hey: don't walk away, my lips are still flapping, lol.

 

Mendel... don't know what the reasoning is behind using ICE as a reference for non-hybrids, but when dealing with a hybrid it helps differentiate between the internal combustion engine and the electric engine.

 

External combustion engines: Reciprocating Steam (Rankine cycle), Steam Turbine, Stirling, ...

They are often much more precise than using generic terms like "engine".

 

As RocMills already mentioned, we often have reason to distinguish among the various components of a powerplant, or among different types of powerplants.

'Engine' is much too broad. It covers not just internal combustion engines (e.g. traditional gasoline and diesel motors), but also external combustion engines (various steam systems), electric motors, and a wide array of things that we don't even categorize as motors: computer programs, calculating devices (Babbage's computing engine), mechanical tools or instruments or appliances, instruments of war, and even generic agents of change ('engines of economic growth').

 

Now I'm just waiting for someone to ask what the proper term or name is for the electric engine... you know, besides electric engine/motor. Isn't it sometimes referred to as the "traction" engine?

 

Engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Motor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So both Engine and Motor are pretty generic, I use ICE and M/G for Internal Combustion Engine and Motor/Generator. Otherwise sooner or later we will get confused, same as not specifying HV (High Voltage) Battery or 12 Volt Battery eventually confuses us. (Lets not even get started in Break vs Brake)

 

Jimbo, thank you for bringing that up... the 12 Volt Battery is the "standard" battery, is that correct? In all my previous cars there was only the one battery, so I never bothered to learn what its voltage was. Dopey me.

 

I'm partial to "gas engine", "electric motor" and "battery" myself. Pretty evident what each is referring to when speaking about hybrids. But to each their own. ICE seems to be popular around here, probably because its the shortest to type

 

Ah, but are there not TWO batteries in these Cs? Therefore one really should differentiate between the two in order to avoid confusion.

 

Yes since about 1960 all 'normal' car batteries are 12 volt. My little brother drove a Nash Metropolitan that was 6 volt. Nash Metropolitan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

More than you wanted to know about 6 volt car batteries 6-Volt Batteries | Hemmings Motor News

 

There'a another three letter word that works just as well and would eliminate most of the confusion for those not familiar with ICE - it's GAS.

 

But then you would have to say "gas engine" so that people didn't think you were talking about fuel. No one says "ICE engine" because that would be redundant (like VIN number is redundant).

ICE is simply the most efficient (keystroke-wise) way to refer to the internal combustion engine.

 

So, we have the 12-volt- what is the other battery referred to as in the forum?

 

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is the HV or hybrid battery.

 

Thanks, Mark! I knew that the not-ICE was sometimes called the traction engine, but wasn't certain the name carried over to the battery as well. I just love learning things on this forum!