Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), BP, Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) and other oil companies are spending millions of dollars per year working with automakers including Ford (NYSE:F) and Fiat Chrysler (NYSE:FCAU) to improve the internal combustion engine and help it compete with electric vehicles, WSJreports.
The companies are hoping new, thinner lubricants will help squeeze even more efficiency out of traditional car engines, allowing them to comply with stricter environmental rules and remain relevant as new technologies such as zero-emission electric vehicles emerge.
The efforts come as the combustion engine faces new threats, as countries including the U.K., France, China and India have signaled that they plan to ban sales of vehicles with traditional engines in the coming decades.
“It’s really important that we are able to squeeze the lemon,” said Andrew Hepher, Shell’s VP of global commercial technology. “The combustion engine has still got a long way to run.”
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
until the electric car makers can extend the mileage range, reduce charging time,and have many more locations for charging, the auto makers should not be too worried. tesla claims 350 mi. on a full charge, and 75 minutes to fully recharge, that would add 4 hrs. on a trip from NY to Fl. as opposed to 3 15 min. pit stops for gas, and a restroom break. the electric truck is also not very feasible, in the trucking business time is money, on a delivery run, time wasted at a charging station is time that the wheels are not turning! In my opinion, it will be many years before these vehicles have been refined enough to replace fuel powered vehicles, and I’m not yet dumping my oil co. stock holdings!