Port fuel injection has some big advantages, but automakers increasingly are using gasoline direct injection instead. The ...

The basic difference between direct injection (DI) and the port-fuel injection (PFI) systems we've become familiar with since the mid-1980s is that PFI sprays fuel into the intake manifold (behind ...

Carburetors are old news. We've moved on to electronic fuel injection long ago. But of the two main varieties of fuel injection, port and direct, there hasn't been a clear winner as of late. Both ...

Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines emit less carbon dioxide (CO 2) than port fuel injection (PFI) engines when fossil fuel conditions are the same. However, GDI engines emit more ultrafine ...

A cutaway image of a direct-injected BMW engine - Ton1~commonswiki/Wikimedia Commons Until the early 1990s, many gasoline engine designs relied on carburetors to produce the fuel-air mixture needed to ...