It is no accident that as the twenty-first century dawns, car manufacturers have stepped up the pace of diesel engine development to a speed not seen in the century or so since Rudolf Diesel patented ...

In 1673, Christian Huygens invented the first engine. It was designed to pump water from the Seine River to King Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles. Built with an open combustion chamber, it consumed ...

Sophisticated electronic controls and fuel systems improve combustion efficiency and substantially cut emissions. Sophisticated electronic controls and fuel systems improve combustion efficiency and ...

Diesel injectors have gotten increasingly complex over the last twenty years of diesel development, but their basic design is fairly simple. Diesel fuel from the injection pump enters the mechanical ...