2003 - PACE Award Winner Siemens VDO Automotive What: Piezo Common Rail Diesel Direct Injection System Judge's Citation: With Siemens’ Piezo Common Rail Diesel Direct Injection System, the company ...

A retrofit system that converts diesel engines to operate on 90% hydrogen has been prototyped and tested by University of South Wales (UNSW) researchers. This system drastically reduces emissions of ...

Volvo Group and Westport announced a partnership to accelerate the commercialization and global adoption of Westport’s High Pressure Direct Injection fuel system technology for long-haul and offroad ...

If you’re in fleet management or the construction industry, you undoubtedly have machines that run on diesel fuel. In addition to large trucks, more than 75% of all heavy construction equipment uses ...

Westport Fuel Systems on Tuesday unveiled its hydrogen (H2) HPDI fuel system in a demonstrator truck, a spin on the company's HPDI fuel system that already enables heavy-duty trucks to operate on ...

October 3, 2005 It has been a sudden realisation - the world is running out of oil and the laws of supply and demand are set to make petrol prohibitively expensive in the very near future. Sonex ...

In 1673, Christian Huygens invented the first engine. It was designed to pump water from the Seine River to King Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles. Built with an open combustion chamber, it consumed ...

Diesel engines lack the spark of gas engines, both literally and figuratively. They don't need a spark plug since they ignite the fuel using only compression, but also lack the 'je ne sais quoi' that ...

With Siemens’ Piezo Common Rail Diesel Direct Injection System, the company brings an innovative first to the automotive industry. The advent of common rail direct injection had already put the ...