Diesel engines and gasoline engines are so fundamentally different that it’s possible to do real damage simply by filling up your car with the wrong fuel. Converting a diesel engine to actually ...

A technology from Caterpillar combines natural gas and diesel, resulting in an engine that provides the low emissions of natural gas, without giving up the performance of a Cat diesel. “A Caterpillar ...

Diesel engines can technically run backwards, though there's very little (if any) practical applications for this, especially for road-going engines.

Diesel and gasoline rarely mix. Generally speaking, engines that like to run on diesel don’t like to burn gasoline, and vice versa. Of course, there are examples of engines that can run on just about ...

Mazda is first with plans for a compression (diesel) engine that burns gas. The SkyActiv-X 2019 Mazda will get 20 to 30 percent better fuel economy than a gasoline ignition engine. Share on Facebook ...

Gasoline and diesel engines are very different. The former rely on spark ignition while the latter use compression ignition. Diesel engines typically run at much higher compression ratios than ...