GENEVA -- General Motors Co. is introducing its first in-house diesel engine control unit on the new Opel/Vauxhall Meriva small minivan, making the carmaker independent of unit suppliers such as ...

If you have a vehicle with a diesel engine, it's good to know that the engine can derate itself, depending on various factors ...

It is a well known fact that petrolheads across the world love tuning up performance output from their engines. The DieselTRONIC unit from Race Dynamics helps owners of diesel vehicles do just that ...

Modern electronic diesel engines use ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel and have sophisticated fuel management systems that include integrated throttle control. Use of these engines results in ...

Engine Control Unit (ECU) remapping is the ultimate way of increasing the performance and fuel economy of your car. Read on to find out more Back in the era of carburettors it was fairly easy to ...

The modern internal combustion engine is an engineering marvel. We’re light-years ahead of simple big blocks and carburetors, and now there are very fast, very capable computers sensing adjusting the ...

Bosch launched the first common rail system in 1997. The system is named after the shared high-pressure reservoir (common rail) that supplies all the cylinders with fuel. With conventional diesel ...

Researchers from Bochum, Germany, and San Diego, California, say they’ve found the precise mechanisms that allowed diesel Volkswagens and Audis to engage or disengage emissions controls depending on ...