A magnet is attached to the engine’s crankshaft to time the voltage spikes, these spikes are fed directly into the spark plugs to cause ignition, this is why you don’t need a battery.

At the Tokyo Auto Salon, Mazda revealed that it will utilize laser-ignition to replace traditional spark plugs in its upcoming rotary engine design. This innovation promises to revolutionize how ...

The engine had to be modified for spark ignition instead of compression ... on the market is instead chemically produced from natural gas, releasing harmful carbon emissions and making what ...

This enables greater efficiencies because less fuel is burned per cycle, but has the trade-off of being more difficult to ignite using conventional spark plugs. Not so with laser ignition ...

While a gas engine uses spark plugs to ignite the air/fuel mix, diesels have no spark plugs and rely on fuel injection to ...