Cars are Andrew's jam, as is strawberry. After spending years as a regular ol' car fanatic, he started working his way through the echelons of the automotive industry, starting out as social-media ...

Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai's new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which Hyundai ...

Hyundai figured out continuously variable valve duration in a production vehicle (or at least one about to hit production). increase in performance of 4 percent with 5 percent better efficiency, along ...

Even as electric cars become more common, automakers are still trying to squeeze more efficiency out of internal-combustion engines. That’s led to more complex solutions to the age old task of mixing ...

Hyundai last week announced that it has developed what it claims is the world’s first mass-production continuously variable valve duration (CVVD) technology. The company asserted the new valve tech, ...

Hyundai's Continuously Variable Valve Duration (CVVD) is a breakthrough engine technology first used in the 2020 Sonata’s 1.6L turbo engine. Traditional engines use fixed valve timing, but modern ...

As most carmakers in the industry are trying to improve fuel consumption and emission levels by turning electric, there are a few left still striving to better the good-old combustion engine. From ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the very first Continuously Variable Valve Duration, or CVVD, system from Hyundai. I claimed it to be the first production engine with the technology. As did Jason ...

Internal-combustion engines are now all about the trade-off between power and efficiency. Until now, the tools to address that trade-off have been variable valve timing and variable valve lift, which ...

Hyundai put into place a cool technology that expands the flexibility of an engine called Continuously Variable Valve Duration, or CVVD. It’s a system I wrote about earlier this year. It impressed me ...