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 ...

Ford of Europe will install gasoline direct-injection, spark-ignition engines into some of its smaller vehicles beginning in 2003. Called Duratec SCi - for Smart Charge injection - the engines feature ...

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 ...

Trying to think green when buying a car? Whether your new fuel-efficient engine helps or hurts the warming planet depends on where you live and what you're putting in the tank. New cars aim to deliver ...

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 ...

Q: Numerous articles were published (including yours) in the past suggesting that direct injection gas engines might experience drivability problems at higher mileage due to deposits building up on ...

The other day I dropped my car off at a European specialist shop, and while I was there, a technician was working in the engine bay of a Mk7 Golf R, cleaning out carbon deposits off the intake valves.

However, not all innovations are equal, and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

The "OEM Strategies for Particulate Matter (PM) Emission Reduction in Direct Injection Gasoline Engines, 2017-2022" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. The aim of this study is to ...

Gasoline direct injection, or GDI, is one of the most crucial bits of technology in the modern internal combustion engine. In engines equipped with GDI, highly pressurized gasoline is sprayed directly ...