On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly ...

If you are not already using a fuel additive regularly, it is time to seriously think about it. Diesel fuel has gone through new formulations with the implementation of ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD).

Earlier this week we reported about leaded fuel finally being banned in Algeria—the last country in the world that was dispensing it for use in road-going cars. However, some readers of The Drive ...

With the rest of the world having long-since moved away from leaded fuels, aviation gasoline, or "avgas" for short, seemingly exists as a final holdover from a bygone era. The most ubiquitous avgas ...

Roughly 170,000 piston-engine aircraft are used across the country. Nearly all burn a grade of aviation gasoline that contains lead. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Reading Time: 7 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An editorial earlier this summer (“Don’t let children near Colorado’s airports suffer the same fate as kids in Flint, Mich.” July 11, 2023) focused on an ...

Open the window and take a deep breath. Can you smell the clean air already? At the time of writing, the world has been free of leaded gasoline for five days now. Or ...

Engine knock, wherein fuel ignites unevenly along the cylinder wall resulting in damaging percussive shockwaves, is an issue that automakers have struggled to mitigate since the days of the Model T.

The Biden administration on Wednesday declared emissions from airplanes running on leaded aviation fuel a threat to public health — a first step toward stamping out a major source of metal pollution ...

Let's face it, most engine additives don't really improve performances. If you want to try one that does, here's what you ...