Before electronic fuel injection showed the way forward, European engineers created radically and wonderfully complicated mechanical fuel-injection systems. By Chris Perkins Published: Nov 17 ...

Mechanical fuel injection (and fuel injection as a whole) dates back to the dawn of the automobile. The first diesel engines, which were built in the late 19th century, used simple mechanical fuel ...

Electronic fuel injection is older than you think, the earliest example being the failed Bendix Electrojector system from 1957. Bosch bought the rights to the Eletrojector system and developed it ...

More than five-and-a-half decades have passed since the first mechanical fuel-injection system appeared on the C1 Corvette and full-size Chevy sedans, but its remarkable how well the system worked ...

Next year, Volkswagen AG will change its diesel systems from an old-style mechanical fuel injection system to a new high-pressure electronic version.