The purpose of the ignition system is to ignite, or fire, the spark plugs in order to generate power to run the engine. To do so, the battery sends current to the ignition coil. Then that high voltage ...

Brunel University in London is to begin researching future powertrain concepts using Camcon Automotive's new Single Cylinder Intelligent Valve Technology (SCI). The system uses the company's ...

News that Mazda is hoping for a 30% fuel efficiency gain on an HCCI (Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition) engine to be introduced on the next generation Mazda3 in late 2018 brings this technology ...

Mercedes-Benz is reassessing its electrification strategy, acknowledging that its initial targets were overly ambitious. Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius openly discussed the strategy shuffle with German ...

For most cars and trucks, gasoline and diesel engines follow the same four basic steps to make power: intake, to get a mixture of fuel and air into the cylinders; compression, to squeeze that mixture ...

The demon of engine knock is something an owner of a traditional high-performance Pontiac knows all too well. An engine designed when 102-octane high test was at almost every fuel station in the ...

In 1673, Christian Huygens invented the first engine. It was designed to pump water from the Seine River to King Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles. Built with an open combustion chamber, it consumed ...