This news comes as something of a game changer for the Nano. Before the car offered bare bones transportation at a cheap price. Certainly a strong selling point, but with skyrocketing fuel prices, the ...

Our most likely exposure to a steam engine these days will probably come courtesy of a railway locomotive. A machine capable of immense power and probably with significant complexity and engineering ...

Volvo has put a new spin on the turbocharged engine. The 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel motor in its upcoming S90 sedan doesn’t just use a turbocharger to compress air into the cylinders for increased ...

[Tom Stanton] has been experimenting with compressed air motors on model aircraft for a good few years, but keeping them aloft (and intact) for more than a few seconds has proven a tough nut to crack.

Developed by Moteur Developpement International, the Compressed Air Engine might just be best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years. And now, one of the first commercial applications for ...

HOT ROD Magazine has done several stories and tests on compressed-air supercharging, and we are bringing this story, which was posted in 2014, back to the surface because the concept has a renewed ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago. Even now, in the age of electric trains, SLs still enjoy deep-rooted popularity, and some ...

Using compressed air as a power adder (supercharger) is in vogue again! Younger readers may be wondering what we mean by this and argue that forcing super-cold, highly pressurized air into an engine’s ...