Prolonged winter car warm-ups can damage engine pistons and cylinders while wasting fuel. Modern cars only need brief starts before gentle driving starts.

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

The Piston Slap about Sue’s Forester was great! I was going to email this question to you anyway, then found that her issue ...

The problem of converting the oscillating mechanical force of a free piston engine remains with a conventional car. However the power of a free piston engine could be harnessed as part of an ...

the Wankel was ultimately abandoned in favor of a piston engine. But one Delorean owner didn't forget the original vision. Through the 1980s and 1990s the only rotary-powered car sold in the US ...

Porsche's six strokes include the four familiar ones: intake, compression, power, and exhaust. But it inserts an additional compression and power stroke in the middle (following the first power stroke ...

These engines mimic the function of an internal combustion engine, with each solenoid acting as a piston. The only problem ... While the small car doesn’t have steering and only goes at a ...