“We applied our most radical naval architecture ever on this hull, resulting in dramatic lower resistance and, consequently, reduced fuel consumption,” Vripack’s co-creative director Bart Bouwhuis ...

If you watched the MythBusters drive an old Mercedes diesel fueled with used cooking oil, you probably wondered why we don't do that all the time with all diesels. After all, Cummins B-series are the ...

Starting in January, BMW will fill up all new diesel models it builds in Germany with HVO 100 hydrotreated vegetable oil. The German automaker is working with Finnish manufacturer Neste on the ...

The California Air Resources Board has approved a 20% limit on credits for renewable diesel produced from soybean, canola and sunflower oils, despite industry complaints that the cap was unnecessary ...

Dozens of students lazed in the sun on the Frist South Lawn yesterday, enjoying the music of the Ithaca-based funk/rock band Revision. The group, which tours the country in a van fueled by used ...

If you've spent any amount of time watching car YouTubers who are into pulling abandoned cars out of barns or fields and trying to get them to run and/or drive home, you've surely seen someone use ...

A diesel engine is simultaneously incredibly simple and incredibly violent, using compression as a means of ignition. This is because of the properties of diesel fuel: Namely, diesel is less volatile ...

Diesel and gasoline engines might look alike under the hood, but they use oil in very different ways. Gas engines run cleaner, but diesels create much more soot, crank out higher compression forces, ...