It has been touted as the automotive holy grail, the ultimate marriage of better performance and greater fuel economy. It’s the direct-injection (DI) engine, the latest technology designed to squeeze ...

Improving fuel efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions as much as possible is one of the main tasks for the struggling American automaker General Motors who is currently facing a 60-day deadline to ...

However, not all innovations are equal, and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

Better fuel economy and lower emissions from gasoline direct-injection engines are getting closer. Most European automakers are preparing GDI engines for introduction in the next few years, starting ...

Tata’s new TGDi engines: what do they get? Tata's new engines are constructed using aluminium and are stiffer in construction. They are also said to have improved performance, compared to the current ...

The power, fuel efficiency, and longevity of an engine will heavily depend on the fuel that’s being delivered. Furthermore, an engine’s efficiency is dependent on a precisely calculated air-to-fuel ...

Volkswagen uses TSI and TFSI to denote many of its engines. But just how much of a difference comes from those alternate ...

Ford of Europe will install gasoline direct-injection, spark-ignition engines into some of its smaller vehicles beginning in 2003. Called Duratec SCi - for Smart Charge injection - the engines feature ...

Q: Numerous articles were published (including yours) in the past suggesting that direct injection gas engines might experience drivability problems at higher mileage due to deposits building up on ...

Honda will introduce newly developed “clean” direct injection petrol engines for 2003 models in Japan. The new engines will have 20 percent better fuel economy and ultra-clean emissions about half the ...