Compression-ignition engines, more commonly known as diesel engines were initially designed to run on peanut oil, not the slightly viscous, petroleum-based fuel it runs on today. Its inventor created ...

Vehicle owners are increasingly converting their petrol and diesel cars to run on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or compressed ...

Engineers are struggling to make the combustion engine run purely on hydrogen, but scientists believe there is an easier way. Engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney have ...

As the world grapples with the prospect of damaging climate change, the automotive industry is pushing hard to transition towards less-polluting technologies. Amidst a broader move to electric drive, ...

NOx emissions from diesel vehicles, which have proven to be much higher in the real world than predicted in laboratory conditions, have even been blamed for tens of thousands of premature deaths. But ...

Diesel and gasoline rarely mix. Generally speaking, engines that like to run on diesel don’t like to burn gasoline, and vice versa. Of course, there are examples of engines that can run on just about ...

The developer of a line of advanced rotary diesel and multi-fuel internal combustion engines is expanding into the renewable energy game. LiquidPiston's X-Engine, which we've covered previously and is ...

If you watched the MythBusters drive an old Mercedes diesel fueled with used cooking oil, you probably wondered why we don't do that all the time with all diesels. After all, Cummins B-series are the ...

Audi has approved a number of new V6 and four-cylinder diesel engines to run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), derived from residues and waste materials from agriculture and the food industry. The ...