American automobiles with carburetors were produced for the last time during the 1986 model year and were replaced by designs equipped with electronic fuel injection (EFI) systems. Clean air standards were the driving force that pushed manufacturers to...

Fuel injection is a means of metering fuel into an internal combustion engine. In modern automotive applications, fuel metering is one of several functions performed by an "engine management system". A fuel injection system is designed and calibrated...

Electronic fuel injection (EFI) drove carburetors out of new-car production for good about a decade ago. Yet we can actually trace EFI's roots back way before then-to the systems developed by Robert Bosch in the late '60s and early '70s for Volkswagen and other...

A story discussing electronic controls for diesel engines, on page 24 of I&T's March 1984 issue, left some points unclear, so we'll clarify it. One paragraph said, "It should be pointed out that their research dealt with an IDI (indirect injection) engine,...

About half the new cars sold in western Europe have diesel engines under their hoods. Diesels have enjoyed a decade of relentless growth and development encouraged by their less-aggressive appetite for fuel and favorable taxation. Now some European automakers are trying to convince a skeptical...

"Old age should burn and rave at close of day,” observed the poet Dylan Thomas, who must have had a vintage Mercedes-Benz. A Mercedes does not “go gentle into that good night,” but goes with a burn of oil and the rave of fritzing electrics...

My essay is about different types of fuel injection systems and the classification of them.