You might have heard about high compression ratios, but what exactly are they, and what kind of effect do they have on an ...

The latest concept is a small four-cylinder running on synthetic fuel that can achieve 71 mpg in an EREV platform.

Built on its long-running Heavy-Duty Engine Platform, Daimler Truck North America’s new Gen 6 diesel engines utilize a novel ...

A fast-rising name in the hybrid vehicle market, Horse Powertrain has spent the past three years transitioning into one of ...

Getting from A to B by most means of transport is polluting; incomplete combustion of fuels releases soot and unburned fuel into the atmosphere, along with greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide and ...

Here in 2019, only the most fringe reactionaries are able to claim with a straight face that climate change is not a thing. But after years of the media doing its “two sides” thing, recalcitrant ...

Recent advances in the analysis of aviation engine efficiency and sustainability have expanded the understanding of engine performance beyond traditional energy metrics. Researchers are increasingly ...

As one of the world’s largest suppliers of aircraft engines, systems and services, GE Aerospace continues to be an industry leader in developing technologies to reduce CO 2 emissions from flight. GE ...

Every fleet strives to achieve two things when it comes to engines. The first is to maintain efficiency in order to reduce operating and service costs. The other is to ensure the longest possible ...

One famous limit of thermodynamics is that heat engines, like steam engines and internal combustion engines, must be less efficient than a Carnot heat engine (a heat engine cycle designed by French ...

At the end of May, the final meeting of the "Horizon 2020" project "GasOn" with the EU Commission took place in Brussels. The aim of this EU project was the further development of gas engines for cars ...

The engine in your car right now is terrible at its job. The concept of adiabatic is as old as automotive engineering (BTW it’s pronounced “aid-ee-a-bad-ik”), and simply means a system where heat ...