Technologue

General Motors has now sold more than a million engines with Dynamic Fuel Management. This riff on cylinder deactivation can shut off any and all cylinders in the V-8 engines powering everything from Chevy Silverado pickups to Cadillac Escalade SUVs.

This concept, developed by Tula Technologies and covered here in May 2014, intriguingly can be applied to electric motors—which use neither spark plugs