How hard could it to be to build a two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) from scratch? This is a challenge that [Camden Bowen] gladly set for himself, while foregoing such obvious wastes of ...

We’re introduced to the traditional two-stroke diesel engine as thermally efficient but not smooth-running, and then the gas turbine as smooth but much more inefficient. The free piston engine ...

QUESTION: What was the last car to have a two-stroke engine? As strict Western emissions standards were developed, two-stroke ...

Many Japanese motorcycles produced in the years after World War II used two-stroke engines. Although two-stroke engines are simple and cheap to make, and they can provide excellent power with ...

Over the last few years, there’s been a resurgence in the popularity of two-stroke engines, even though competitive riders continue to rely on four-stroke power. So which is preferable?

Just a few years later, Scotsman Dugald Clark reckoned he might double the power and improve smoothness by halving the number of strokes, and by 1894 the modern two-stroke engine began to take shape.

The MAN B&W range of MC crosshead two-stroke engines covers the widest range of cylinder sizes (from 260mm to 900mm) and unit outputs (2,200 to 51,840 kW/2,960 to 70,440 hp) available from a ...