A German engineer, Felix Wankel, is credited with developing the world's first rotary engine in the 1950s. Wankel rotary engines use a triangular rotor spinning in a semi-oval case on an eccentric ...

Volkswagen has shown a new coasting function for internal combustion engines, which shuts off the engine completely, at the Vienna Motor Symposium. “Partially and fully electric drive systems form a ...

How Does an Engine Work? Before digging into this significant expense, it’s important to outline how an engine works. The engine is the heart of the car, truck, or SUV. The vehicle’s full function is ...

Really, Nicholas Otto should have known. When the 18th Century inventor/engineer/designer/builder/deep-thinker was finally able to take French engineer Alphonse Beau ...

The uncomfortable truth is that SDR teams rarely fail because of the individuals themselves; they fail because the systems ...

You may be inclined to drive a brand-new car just like the one you’re replacing it with. However, there are some steps you should take to ensure that its heart—the engine—will live a long and reliable ...

The stop-start function on modern cars works according to a variety of protocols. Fundamentally, if the car’s battery can cope with not having the engine running, then it will trigger the fuel-saving ...

As we all have come to know, from the next season (2014), Formula 1 is going to adopt 1.6-litre V6 turbo charged engines in place of the current 2.4-litre normally-aspirated V8 engines. This change ...