Better fuel economy and lower emissions from gasoline direct-injection engines are getting closer. Most European automakers are preparing GDI engines for introduction in the next few years, starting ...

Automobile engines have undergone tons of changes over the years, primarily to make them more efficient. For the most part though, engine changes result from a string of iterative improvements on ...

The internal combustion gasoline engine -- we have a love/hate relationship with it. It creates a lot of pollution. It is incredibly inefficient. It spews carbon into the atmosphere. It makes us ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...

Improving fuel efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions as much as possible is one of the main tasks for the struggling American automaker General Motors who is currently facing a 60-day deadline to ...

2008 - PACE Award Winner Continental What: Piezo Direct Injection System for Gasoline Applications Judge's Citation: Improving fuel injection is aimed at better performance from less gasoline, meaning ...

Direct injection has been considered the most effective approach to overcome the inherent short-circuiting of fuel in a two-stroke engine. A practical application of this technology on an 1100cc ...

Automakers have long touted the benefits of fuel injection, claiming increased efficiency and power. But as more cars have the system installed (around 73% in 2023), more and more consumers are ...

For the first time, manufacturers were talking about gas-burning turbo engines making peak torque starting at 1,750 rpm and ...

For more than a century, Americans have relied on gasoline to get us everywhere we want to go. Rarely do we think about how gasoline actually combusts in our engines. Most often, we’re concerned with ...

The 1955 Mercedes 300SL did more than introduce dramatic gullwing doors to the road. It quietly rewrote the rulebook for ...

Twenty years ago, a group of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) established the voluntary TOP TIER™ standard to enhance fuel detergency and optimize engine performance. Recognizing the ...