Mazda’s new SkyActiv-X engine will go against every convention you thought you understood about gasoline engines. It’s supercharged, but for efficiency purposes, not to increase power. It has a ...

Diesel’s on the outs in Europe, and EVs aren’t ready for prime time. Skyactiv-X seems, at this juncture, a hedge bet against both aspects. EV infrastructure lags massively behind our petroleum ...

Car manufacturers are delving deep into their boxes of tricks to make internal combustion engines more efficient. Infiniti unveiled a variable compression ratio engine last year, and hybrid technology ...

Mazda sustainability vision includes a gasoline engine ignited by compression like a diesel with fuel economy and performance that beats today's gasoline and diesel engines Mazda’s SKYACTIV-X will be ...

Mazda Motor Corporation's new Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 technology development strategy includes its petrol compression ignition engine which it will call Skyactiv-X and launch in 2019. It will be a ...

The differences between gasoline and diesel engines lie not only in their fuels, but in how those fuels are ignited. Gasoline engines use spark plugs, while diesels simply use compression. But it is ...

Mazda has detailed the next-generation of its SkyActiv engine family, which will feature innovative compression ignition technology. While the new SkyActiv engine is still under development, Mazda ...

Skyactiv-X, Mazda’s newest engine, will use a compression ignition system to make its gasoline-powered vehicles more powerful and more fuel efficient than ever before. This innovative engine is at the ...

Compression ignition boosts efficiency up to 30 percent, company says Compression ignition boosts efficiency up to 30 percent, company says Mazda is using diesel engine technology to save the gasoline ...

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines combine a diesel's torque and fuel efficiency with a gas engine's cleaner emissions. The HCCI technique has been a goal of automakers since the ...