Toyota’s New Engines Improve Fuel Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) may be old tech, finding its roots over a hundred years ago, but it’s certainly not dead. Toyota’s new...
BMW's New 116D (Diesel) as Efficient as Today's Hybrids
German vehicle constructor BMW is trying to show us that it can produce not only fast, luxury and fuel-greedy vehicles, but also very fuel-efficient cars.
BMW's 1 series is offering the greenest diesel experience from BMW. The 2 liters four-cylinder diesel...
HydroICE Solar-Powered Engine May Compete with Photovoltaic Panels
Imagine an internal combustion engine that runs on solar-heated oil and water instead of gasoline. Sound crazy? Two Missouri-based inventors Ben Cooper and Matt...
Air Filter That Sensibly Increases Engine Power and MPG Patented by Romanian Engineer
Corneliu Birtok-Baneasa, a Romanian engineer, has invented a groundbreaking air filter that decreases the fuel consumption by 10 to 15 percent and raises an...
See Which EU Automakers Fuzzy Carbon Dioxide Emissions Math
Granted, carbon dioxide emissions and fuel economy measurements are hardly real-world, but it seems that some automakers have a little more tolerance built into...
Airbus A350-XWB Composite Design for Better Fuel Economy – Test Flight Soon?
Everyone is looking to cut costs, and in the transportation industry, whether light vehicles or aircraft, fuel economy is the number one way to...
New Ultra-Efficient Engine Promises 100 MPG
Today's internal combustion engines are almost nothing like the engines found in cars of years gone by, with the exception of the basic...
Blogger gets 72 mpg from stock Euro Honda Civic diesel
What we're going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we're not sure you can...
New OCN Jet Engine Sips 25% Less Fuel and Outputs 75% Less Greenhouse Gases
An Israeli firm called R-Jet Engineering has designed a new jet engine that could lower the fuel consumption by 25%. Just like current jet engines are twice as efficient compared to those built in the 1960s, this one, if applied on commercial airplanes, could offer significant savings in fuel and greenhouse gases.
German Engineers Develop Diesel Engine With Barely Detectable Emissions
Engineers from the Technische Universitaet Munchen (TUM) have shown an engine prototype whose emissions are very close to the Euro 6 standard, even though the Euro 5 norm has just been put into force three months ago for all new car models.
