Why are some fuel gauges and fuel-range indicators sometimes so inaccurate they leave riders stranded with an empty tank far from a service station? In fact, often the more hi-tech, sophisticated and ...

Few things sap the fun of driving your vintage truck like a dead or inaccurate fuel gauge reading. Without the confidence of knowing exactly how much juice is in the tank, it's natural to keep drives ...

Almost all fuel gauges are electric and only read when the ignition is on, but you cannot put an electronic gadget inside a tank of explosive fuel. So, the electrics bit is mounted outside the tank ...

This is kind of a difficult concept to describe, but I love wonderful things that are at least on some level ridiculous. I love things that show incredible levels of thought and innovation, but for ...

When I started the car up this morning I noticed that the fuel gauge was not working. (stuck at 0 with no movement whatsoever). When I drove the car I then noticed that the speedometer was also not ...

Back in December 2020, the peeps at Audi were presented with multiple field cases from customers who ran out of gasoline, although the fuel gauge indicated a half-full tank. The four-ringed automaker ...

Italian investigators are recommending European regulators consider changing fuel-system certification criteria to require low-fuel warning systems to be independent of cockpit fuel-quantity gauges.

It isn’t that often that we civilians get the chance to closely examine the fantastic internals that make up the modern marvels of avionic engineering. Luckily for us, [Glen] got his hands on a 747 ...

If there’s one car fact or Easter Egg or detail (or whatever you want to call it) that seems to delight non-car-obsessed people more than any other one, I think it has to be this one: fuel gauges tend ...