What is gasoline direct injection and how is it different from traditional methods of getting fuel into your car's engine? Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan started out in the ...

Direct injection. Just about every car has it now, and those that don’t probably will in the next few years. It can add power, reduce emissions, and is a big part of why just about everybody is ...

Direct injection, as the name suggests, refers to a type of fuel system which introduces fuel directly into an engine's combustion chambers. This differentiates it from conventional injection systems ...

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I started driving when the vast majority of cars still had points ignitions. I've lived through the mid-'70s transition to electronic ignitions, then 10 years later had to learn a bunch of new tricks ...

Gasoline direct injection, or GDI, is one of the most crucial bits of technology in the modern internal combustion engine. In engines equipped with GDI, highly pressurized gasoline is sprayed directly ...

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The heart of most vehicles today, the internal combustion engine has advanced significantly over its century long history. This series outlines some of the key innovations in engine technology before ...

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How does direct fuel injection work? Instead of having injectors in a throttle body, or in the intake manifold, a direct injection system makes use of an injector that fires into the combustion ...