We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

BMW has adopted an aluminum piston developed by Federal-Mogul for use in its M550d xDrive sedan. The piston meets the strength and thermal performance requirements of very high-power diesel engines ...

Achates Power and Aramco Services recently announced they will put a Ford F-150 on the road with a novel opposed piston engine under the hood, hoping to prove this exotic engine design is the future ...