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No zebra mussels have invaded B.C. waters yet, and an Alberta-based team that uses mussel-sniffing dogs intends to keep it that way. Discovered in the U.S. 20 years ago, it's believed the tiny critters hitchhiked in the ballast tanks of European ships.

Manchester - Graphene could be the key to more fuel efficient vehicles, leading to a generation of cars where less fuel is needed for each pump stop. It all comes down to heat efficiency.

General Motors Co <GM.N> on Wednesday announced a new generation of efficient small engines that it says will power 27 models in 64 countries by the 2017 model year.

British engineering company Rolls-Royce <RR.L> has outlined plans designed to maintain long-term dominance in large aircraft engines, showcasing two new models that could improve efficiency b...

British engineering company Rolls-Royce <RR.L> unveiled plans on Wednesday for a new aircraft engine which it said would be up to 6 percent more efficient than its latest model and could be r...

As the next generation of narrow-body airplanes takes to the skies later this year, makers of the new fuel-efficient engines that power them are battling for market share.

This article reports on the automotive performance and efficiency provided the trifecta of turbocharging, direct fuel injection and variable valve timing.

The all new 2008 Dodge Challenger 392 Super Stock Concept Car.

FRANKFURT (dpa) - Amid the glamour, horsepower and polished chrome at the Frankfurt car show manufacturers are aware that unless they show some effort towards conserving the environment, their carefully- honed images will suffer. The aim is not to r...

FRANKFURT - Most motorists agree these days that diesel engines are no longer noisy and sluggish but fears that emissions from compression-ignition motors are more harmful than their petrol- driven counterparts refuse to go away. Clouds of black smo...

Stuttgart (dpa) - The assembly halls at Korb near Stuttgart used to resound to the whirring of rotary Wankel engines - but now all is plunged into silence. Managing director Juergen Bax casts a wistful look out of his office window at a picturesque ...