If you ask any modern automotive nerd to name the first vehicle to feature a direct-injection diesel technology, you will likely get one of two answers. The Volkswagen Audi Group loyalist will point ...

The 2027 Ford F-150 3.0L V6 EcoBoost engine lacks one big feature that was present in the outgoing 2.7L EcoBoost, as well as the rest of the engine lineup.

Cost and complexity are discouraging Hyundai from applying direct injection to small engines. Direct injection reduces fuel consumption and emissions and in some applications boosts engine performance ...

Direct-injection engines were introduced with a promise that sounded ideal: more power, better fuel efficiency, and cleaner emissions, all from a more precise way of delivering fuel. On paper, the ...

A tweaked piston crown is all it would take for Mitsubishi to reduce emissions and improve power in direct-injected cars.

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 ...

Discussions of direct fuel injection are almost entirely focused on diesel engines. Increasingly, however, direct injection is being utilized in gasoline engines ranging from the one in the family car ...

What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? You may have read or heard one of your favorite Car Tech editors talking ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...

Gasoline direct injection, or GDI, is one of the most crucial bits of technology in the modern internal combustion engine. In engines equipped with GDI, highly pressurized gasoline is sprayed directly ...

Direct injection engines deliver fuel at high pressure directly into the combustion chamber. When the fuel spray strikes surfaces such as the piston crown or liner, a thin liquid film forms. This film ...

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