What makes a diesel engine different to a regular gas engine, and is one better than the other?

Basic engine education is much like basic sex education: There are hundreds of well-written, informative books on the subject but only a handful of the interested people are willing to expend the time ...

Last month we began a new series on the basic operation of the internal combustion engine. We realize that many of our readers may be new to the high-performance scene and do not fully understand the ...

The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

Hybrid technology in cars refers to systems that combine a conventional internal combustion engine with one or more electric motors. This approach is designed to improve fuel efficiency, reduce ...

There are a few different kinds of combustion engines out there. Most of them are fairly simple machines in theory, but decades of refinement and innovation have made modern engines into complex ...