P atented by Rudolf Diesel on 28 February 1892, it could be argued that it took a while for diesel engines to take off – and ...

It’s been a decade since Volkswagen’s “Dieselgate” scandal largely snuffed out the international market for diesel-fueled passenger vehicles, but up to the time that story broke, Rudolph Diesel’s ...

Back then, it’d be hard to classify the German Rudolf Diesel as a typical gearhead. The first cars – or horseless carriages – were only starting to see the light when he invented the ...

Oh, and the name? It's a mash-up of Rudolph Diesel and Nikolaus Otto, the two German inventors of the diesel and four-stroke Otto-cycle engines. Those crazy German engineers are at it again ...

This is an example of a true Diesel engine as patented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897. The Diesel is one of the most efficient converters of fuel and the backbone of global transport. This engine was ...