What is one of the most critical variables you can set when building an engine? That could be a long debate, but compression is certainly one of the main ones. It dictates not only how much power you ...

Nissan engineers have reportedly been working on the engine concept for more than 20 years, and the company claims to have filed more than 300 patents protecting the design and associated technologies ...

Turbocharging has mostly not lived up to its billing of being the savior of internal-combustion engine technology. Earlier this decade, facing increasing fuel economy requirements, automakers rushed ...

As a concept, the internal combustion engine is as old as dirt. To our luck, the ICE is still relevant nowadays thanks to engineering developments such as direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop ...

When the next-generation Infiniti QX50 crossover arrives next year as a 2019 model, it will be powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine introducing a technology never seen before in a ...

Efforts by automakers to increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions have intensified in recent years as emission rules have tightened and the effects of climate change are better analyzed.

Forget variable length intakes and variable valve timing, Infiniti is going all the way and introducing variable cylinder compression ratios. The new VC-T turbo engine automatically adjusts between a ...

Infiniti has revealed an engine concept this year, and it is of the variable compression kind. While not the first of its type as a concept, this motor might bring a new line of internal combustion ...

Infiniti introduced the world's first variable compression-ratio engine, a technology it claims to have been working on for two decades, at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. A variable compression-ratio ...

While the fashion in high-tech automotive developments might lean towards hybrids and electric vehicles at the moment, there’s still plenty of scope to improve the good old internal combustion engine ...

Infiniti's new Variable Compression Turbo is the centerpiece of this crossover. Variable compression engine sounds like something you’d hear from a super villain describing his latest contraption. At ...

Hyundai figured out continuously variable valve duration in a production vehicle (or at least one about to hit production). increase in performance of 4 percent with 5 percent better efficiency, along ...