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Automobile Magazine names direct injection Technology of the Year

A number of automakers are beginning to roll out gasoline engines that use direct injection. Oil-burning diesel engines have been using direct injection a bit longer. In a DI engine, the fuel is sprayed directly into the combustion chamber, allowing a computer to precisely meter the correct amount to use. Before DI became popular, and continuing to today, fuel was generally injected into the intake tract of an engine along with the air mixture before it entered the combustion chamber. There are a number of benefits to this seemingly small ... Read more →

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