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 ...

Banks have begun marketing up to $7.7 billion in financing to support bids for a majority stake in Volkswagen’s Everllence diesel engine unit. The potential sale, valued at more than €5 billion, comes ...

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 ...

When the mechanical diesel engine days came to an end in the mid '90s, it was the dawning of the electronically controlled diesel era, which has ballooned into the current plug-and-play culture we're ...

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 ...

Researchers from Bochum, Germany, and San Diego, California, say they’ve found the precise mechanisms that allowed diesel Volkswagens and Audis to engage or disengage emissions controls depending on ...