Well, at this year's Hyundai powertrain-tech shindig, I got an update from powertrain honcho John Juriga as to just whatever happened to GDCI. He explained that under compression-ignition operating ...

If you think that companies like General Motors only think about fuel economy when new CAFE standards are making news, you'd be wrong. GM and other manufacturers are always looking for new ...

However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

Like most auto engines, HCCI engines inject a premixed charge of fuel and air into the cylinder. But combustion is not set off by a spark plug. Instead, the mixture is compressed until it autoignites, ...

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition. What is the future of gasoline engines, or internal combustion engines? HCCI is an alternative to traditional gasoline or diesel engines, which doesn't use a ...

Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge ...

The internal combustion engine, now more than 200 years old, will be with us for a long time to come yet. Powering more than 1 billion vehicles on the planet and almost 100 million new ones each year, ...

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 ...