Automotive Engineering

How Electric Vehicles Work How electric vehicles move EV’s are like an automatic car. They have a forward and reverse mode. When you place the vehicle in gear and press on the accelerator pedal these things happen: Power is converted from the DC battery to AC for the electric motor The accelerator pedal sends a…

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine  where the cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration The first known working V8 engine was produced by the French company Antoinette in 1904 for use in aircraft, and the 1914-1935 Cadillac L-Head engine is considered the first automotive V8 engine to be produced in significant quantities. The…

1)Camshaft:Camshaft is a type of rotating device or apparatus used in piston engines for propelling or operating poppet valves. Camshaft comprises of series of cams that regulates the opening and closing of valves in the piston engines. The camshaft works with the help of a belt, chain and gears. 2)    Crankshaft: Crankshaft is a device, which…

heat engines (internal combustion engines and steam engines) and electric engines used in automotive vehicles. Most automotive engines are piston (reciprocating) internal combustion engines. Automotive engines are divided into four-cycle and two-cycle engines according to the working process and are divided by the method of fuel ignition into spark plug ignition engines (also known as…