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 ...

The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by factors such as auto-ignition properties of the fuel, fuel concentration, and residual rate, and growing ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition. What is the future of gasoline engines, or internal combustion engines? HCCI is an ...

Electric powertrains are important, but combustion engines should come first. That message came today from Mazda R&D head Kiyoshi Fujiwara as his company announced that it had developed the world’s ...

You might have heard about high compression ratios, but what exactly are they, and what kind of effect do they have on an ...

We love ourselves a good oddball engine, and tiny, scrappy Mazda certainly must be responsible for more such engine concept patents per market-capitalization dollar than any other. We just discovered ...

50% fuel economy over current gasoline engines. It operates kind of like a diesel engine. The one demonstrated is a single cylinder engine but they are working on multi-cylinder engines. Still... if ...