Descending in an elevator after a Mother’s Day rooftop brunch, I had a thought I couldn’t shake: “How is this thing getting ...

The lack of a crankshaft in the free piston system means there are ... it has a 1.4-liter gas engine that can recharge them and propel the car itself above 65 mph. This works well, but ...

The rotary engine is easily one of the most controversial automotive engines. There's a pretty interesting explanation for ...

The global automotive piston system market is experiencing robust growth, fueled by the increasing demand for fuel-efficient vehicles and advancements in engine technology. Pistons, a critical ...

That’s why I was so excited when I heard that INNengine of Granada, Spain had produced a opposed-piston ... system to his humble Mazda Miata. Here’s how a 10.3-liter one-cylinder tractor ...

When we think of the largest piston engines, we often think of European exotics or hypercars, like the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with its incredible eight-liter quad-turbo W16 engine that outputs ...

How Does an Engine Work ... to turn the car’s wheels, providing forward and backward motion. Combustion is what causes the up and down motion of the pistons, in a process that looks like this: As the ...

It basically looks like a conventional piston engine, except it uses a complicated geared crankshaft arrangement that allows each piston to reach two top- and bottom-dead-center positions over the ...

When we here in the modern age think of an “engine,” we are usually thinking of a four-stroke, four-cylinder, gasoline-fed, internal-combustion engine with the valves on the top. But why must ...

A rotary engine typically has a better power to weight ratio than a piston engine and runs more ... of the rotary in the 2012 Mazda RX-8 sports car, the last to feature one in a conventional ...