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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Gasoline Direct Injection causes Chain Wear, Fuel Dilution, and LSPI. One of the biggest changes to gasoline combustion engines in recent history is the mass adoption of direct injection ...

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 ...

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 ...

How does fuel injection work? Everything you need to know about fuel injection! Throttle body injection, multipoint port injection, and direct injection. Injection techniques for both gasoline and ...

Tata’s new TGDi engines: what do they get? Tata's new engines are constructed using aluminium and are stiffer in construction. They are also said to have improved performance, compared to the current ...

Honda will introduce newly developed “clean” direct injection petrol engines for 2003 models in Japan. The new engines will have 20 percent better fuel economy and ultra-clean emissions about half the ...

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.