A diesel engine is simultaneously incredibly simple and incredibly violent, using compression as a means of ignition. This is because of the properties of diesel fuel: Namely, diesel is less volatile ...

Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The team from King's College London and collaborators believe their platform ...

Ever been told your car is running lean? It means the engine is receiving too much air or not enough fuel during combustion. You see, your car's engine needs a very specific balance of air and fuel to ...

That on-the-fly adjustment is why demonstrations of the RevForce engine show it running on compressed natural gas, switching on the fly to burning hydrogen, and on to other fuels. Alpha-Otto has ...

The history of funny cars dates back to the 1960s, and while it's not possible to pinpoint exactly who coined the phrase and why, many experts in the drag racing field agree the name originates from ...

Back when we posted about GM's efforts to send a vehicle back to the moon utilizing some of the same electric powertrain technology as the Hummer EV, a user on our Facebook page stated that this made ...

If you watched the MythBusters drive an old Mercedes diesel fueled with used cooking oil, you probably wondered why we don't do that all the time with all diesels. After all, Cummins B-series are the ...