GENEVA -- General Motors Co. is introducing its first in-house diesel engine control unit on the new Opel/Vauxhall Meriva small minivan, making the carmaker independent of unit suppliers such as ...

You might already know that gasoline and diesel engines both operate using the same four-stroke cycle: intake, compression, power, and exhaust. However, a key difference between gas and diesel engines ...

Engine Control Unit (ECU) remapping is the ultimate way of increasing the performance and fuel economy of your car. Read on to find out more Back in the era of carburettors it was fairly easy to ...

Bosch launched the first common rail system in 1997. The system is named after the shared high-pressure reservoir (common rail) that supplies all the cylinders with fuel. With conventional diesel ...

The modern internal combustion engine is an engineering marvel. We’re light-years ahead of simple big blocks and carburetors, and now there are very fast, very capable computers sensing adjusting the ...

Switching from a gasoline engine to a diesel-powered setup is an enticing possibility, but it requires a lot more work than ...

For his PhD at the University of Michigan, [Adam] designed a Raspberry Pi-based system that controls an HCCI engine, a type of engine which combines the merits of both diesel and gasoline engines.