We ask an automotive engine calibration engineer how Chevrolet’s new 5.5-liter LT7 V-8 makes more than 1,000 hp. GM recently dropped the details on the new 2025 C8 ZR1. As an engineer who has worked ...

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The original concept of combustion engines as we understand them dates as far back as the late 1800s. And while they are more or less a solved science today, they definitely didn't start that way.

The popular YouTube channel Engineering Explained is famous for taking complicated engineering concepts, mostly automotive-related, and clearly explaining them to the layman. One of the channel’s ...

In the era of downsizing, automakers are gradually moving away from high-cylinder engines. As a result, they are increasingly in favor of smaller, often turbocharged or hybridized powertrains. A few ...

Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

In an internal combustion engine, air and fuel are injected into the cylinders, where ignitions occur in a controlled environment. The combustion cycles force pistons to move, and that movement is ...

In an editorial, National Academy of Engineering President Tsu-Jae Liu presents a forward-looking perspective on the role of ...

Four-cylinder engines have been part of the automotive scene for over a century. Yet the quest for more power under the hood dominated most of the 20th century, giving rise to six- and eight-cylinder ...

We ask an automotive engine calibration engineer how Chevrolet’s new 5.5-liter LT7 V-8 makes more than 1,000 hp. I instantly got a ton of questions from friends on both sides of the industry. Most ...