While the fashion in high-tech automotive developments might lean towards hybrids and electric vehicles at the moment, there’s still plenty of scope to improve the good old internal combustion engine ...

The World's First Production-Ready Variable Compression Engine Infiniti's has developed the first variable compression ratio ...

Another week, another luxury crossover revealed. This time around, Infiniti has shown off its 2019 QX50 sporting a new design, sitting on a new platform, and rocking the firm’s new, variable ...

WinGD claims the VCR technology can deliver up to 25% fuel savings and 33% lower methane slip, depending on fuel and engine load.

You know what variable valve timing is. You're quite familiar with Honda's VTEC system. Now Infiniti has something new for you dive into, and it's all about changing an engine's compression ratio. The ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 96, Section 4: RECIPROCATING ENGINES–SPARK IGNITION AND DIESEL (1987), pp. 614-623 (10 pages) A single-cylinder, variable–compression ratio, direct–injection diesel engine was ...

Infiniti introduced the world's first variable compression-ratio engine, a technology it claims to have been working on for two decades, at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. A variable compression-ratio ...

Over the course of a round-table discussion and a separate private interview with Alain Raposo, Alliance global vice-president, powertrain and EV engineering and Shinichi Kiga, chief powertrain ...

An interesting patent has been filed by Toyota for an engine with variable compression. The patent is for an engine with variable length connecting rods. The connecting rod features two hydraulic ...

A gasoline piston engine that can dynamically change its compression ratio —that is, the amount by which the piston squeezes the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder—has long been a holy grail of engine ...

The ability to vary an engine's compression ratio has been a "holy grail" quest of engine engineers for decades, because "one size" of compression ratio cannot possibly fit all the operating ...