When modern car engines need more power, they typically turn to turbocharging to get the job done. Of course, that wasn't ...
Soon after the internal combustion engine was invented, technological advancements steadily improved its efficiency and boosted its power output. Increasing displacement—or, in simpler terms, ...
Forced induction is extremely commonplace in today’s automotive world, as a means of squeezing more power out of smaller engines in the era of downsizing. When we think of forced induction in the ...
From the June 2018 issue Progress is rarely victimless. The cotton gin mangles limbs. Robots take jobs. The internet kills common decency. Even if the tidal shift toward turbocharged engines promises ...
Odds are your next car could be turbocharged, or even more certainly the car after that or the car after that. New government fuel economy regulations and the prospect of higher fuel prices are ...
Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...
On one of the strangest, coolest days I've ever had on this job, I drove a Porsche 959. The car belonged to the Porsche Museum. Its minders threw me the keys for a quick rip on the roads around Sonoma ...
Ferrari has patented a new three-dimensional hydrogen engine design that has an air injected electric turbocharging system attracting fellow car manufacturers to closely monitor their development. The ...
After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...
Some design teams creating system-on-chip (SoC) devices are fortunate to work with the latest and greatest technology nodes coupled with a largely unconstrained budget for acquiring intellectual ...