November 28: At this week's L.A. Auto Show, Mazda unveiled the newly redesigned 2019 Mazda 3, which is available as a sedan or as a neat-looking hatchback. More importantly, the car will feature Mazda ...

Compression ignition basically is the term that is used for describing the manner in which diesel engines function. It happens when intake air—which often is combined with recirculating exhaust gas—is ...

Yesterday at the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda released new info on its highly anticipated compression-ignition Skyactiv-X engine. It's all a bit daunting if you're not an engineer, but helpfully, Mazda put ...

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For more than a decade, automotive engineers and researchers have been struggling to come to grips with a way to build an engine that runs on gasoline while harnessing the efficiency and torque ...

Modern compression ignition engines convert fuel energy into mechanical work by auto-igniting a compressed air–fuel mixture. Accurate modelling of in-cylinder processes is vital for both performance ...

The internal combustion engine, now more than 200 years old, will be with us for a long time to come yet. Powering more than 1 billion vehicles on the planet and almost 100 million new ones each year, ...

As Mazda and Infiniti have proved, there's a lot of innovation left in the internal-combustion engine. One of the more wild concepts we've seen is called Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition ...

Ethanol-diesel blends represent a promising route to reduce carbon intensity and particulate emissions from compression ignition engines while utilising existing infrastructure. By incorporating ...

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 ...

Apart from the very curious, not many people ask why diesel engines, compared to gasoline, run higher compression ratios. The argument is reasonably straightforward and starts with fuel ...