It has been touted as the automotive holy grail, the ultimate marriage of better performance and greater fuel economy. It’s the direct-injection (DI) engine, the latest technology designed to squeeze ...

Ralph Hanson December 18, 2008 Comment Now! General Motors has implemented new direct injection technology into the four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines found in the Chevrolet Equinox range, helping ...

High-pressure common rail fuel (HPCR) systems are standard on nearly every diesel engine today, from heavy equipment to over-the-road trucks, light-duty trucks, large generators and more. HPCR fuel ...

How Gasoline Direct Injection causes Chain Wear, Fuel Dilution, and LSPI. One of the biggest changes to gasoline combustion ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 96, Section 4: RECIPROCATING ENGINES–SPARK IGNITION AND DIESEL (1987), pp. 614-623 (10 pages) A single-cylinder, variable–compression ratio, direct–injection diesel engine was ...

There seems little doubt that for the long term, hydrogen is viewed as the fuel of the future for mobile and stationary applications. Ultimately, it’s seen as the enabling technology behind fuel cells ...

Full-load operation of a small-displacement sparkignition direct-injection (SIDI) engine was thoroughly investigated by means of computational analysis and engine measurements. The performance is ...

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.