Most modern gasoline and diesel-powered engines found in the cars and trucks seen on today's roadways rely on the four-cycle-engine principles developed in the late 1800s by Nikolaus Otto, Gottlieb ...
It's difficult to find cars with rotary engines today. Piston-driven engines are more common because the drawbacks of rotary ...
Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...
It is quite ironic that internal combustion engines (ICEs) have remained basically the same for more than one hundred years. It is only now – when they are allegedly on the verge of disappearing – ...
As we begin the last article in this series on the basics of the internal combustion engine, let's stop to review what we've covered during the last five articles. We began last May by detailIing the ...
Duramax diesel engines have been featured in various vehicles, notably GM trucks, for decades. Why do some of these engines have two thermostats?
While the Pentagon did not decide to put GE Aerospace's XA100 adaptive engine into the F-35, its technology is already informing development of the Next Generation Air Dominance platform's engines.