The perpetual-motion machine may be eons away, but the the first commercially viable car to run on compressed air may be at hand. The brainchild of French inventor Guy N gre, the MDI, which we first ...

In the early 1960s, Garrett AiResearch, then best known as the maker of turboprop aviation engines, was moving into the automotive market. With a Garrett T05 turbocharger under the hood of the first ...

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world's first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 ...

Smaller engines with fewer cylinders and less displacement could produce more power and torque by turbocharging. A turbo or turbocharger is a forced-induction device that utilizes exhaust gasses to ...