Efficient engines

In just about a month, Green Car Journal, at the 2014 Washington Auto Show, will present the winner of the 2014 Green Car Technology...

Conventional gasoline engine makers may one day replace spark plugs with lasers, as Japanese researchers have designed and prototyped laser devices that are powerful enough to ignite the fuel and small enough to fit into the engine cylinder head (9 millimeters in diameter and 11 millimeters in length).

One of the most important components in a vehicle for controlling exhaust emission is the catalytic converter. Even though this is common knowledge, there...

British Airways and Lufthansa top the chart for the least fuel efficient carriers, contributing the most to carbon pollution from aviation. Air travel has quite...

The following is an excerpt from tt engines, a company who made a truck engine that does not have any pistons, valves, or any...

After presenting Vasile Karpen and his wonderful but yet not understood invention of the battery that's been running for 60 years, now it's time for another brilliant Romanian green-hearted genius: Justin Capra, the original inventor of the jet pack.

Jet engines run at the very edge of thermal meltdown, but General Electric is turning to ceramics to turn up the heat and make...

Mazda has decided to use the hype caused by the development of electric cars in order to set the stage for its new, revolutionary...

Mazda is said to be working on a gasoline engine to be as environmentally efficient as electric cars.  Its latest high compression engine technology...

Today's internal combustion engines are almost nothing like the engines found in cars of years gone by, with the exception of the basic...