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What kind of engine do most cars use today?
Most cars today use the internal combustion engine.
What is a type of internal combustion engine?
An internal combustion engine is an engine where the fuel combustion happens inside a combustion chamber. There are both Reciprocating and Rotary engines that fall into this category. Most cars on the road today use internal combustion engines. An example would be the V-8 Hemi engines that Dodge puts in their trucks.
What modern fuel engine car that you use today was made in the 1880?
No car made today was made in 1880. The internal combustion 4 cycle engine did exist in 1880 and is still used in vehicles today.
Comparison between internal combustion engines and external combustion engines?
Internal engine has its energy ignited in the cylinder. like 99.9% of engines today An external combustion example is a steam engine where the heating prosses is done in an boiler out side the engine.
What kind of engine do most cars use?
Most cars today use the internal combustion engine.
What is a Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engine?
That is your standard gasoline engine found in most cars today. Fuel/air mixture is ignited by a timed spark, controlled combustion creates power.
How many internal combustion engines are in operation today world wide?
All totaled, how many internal combustion engines are in operation today world wide?
What does the internal combustion engine give rise to?
It completely revolutionized how we get to point A to point B. It gave rise to pretty much every form of transportation that we have today that has an engine.
Can water be used as fuel in internal combustion engine?
Today - no. But they are working on it. If they can find a way to efficiently separate the hydrogen from the oxygen you can run a vehicle on the hydrogen.
What does an internal combustion engine run on?
an internal combustion engine means the source for ignition burns internally so the power gets soon without any loss. an external combustion means the source of ignition was outside so there was loss so less efficiency. an internal combustion engine means the source for ignition burns internally so the power gets soon without any loss. an external combustion means the source of ignition was outside so there was loss so less efficiency.
When was the first combustion engine made?
"Combustion engine" is a pretty generic term.Arguably the aeolipile was a very simple combustion engine, and it was described by Hero (that's a name, not a title) of Alexandria in the 1st Century.James Watt patented his steam engine in 1781.Robert Stirling developed an external combustion engine that did not use steam in 1816.The first internal combustion engine that we'd today recognize as an "engine" was probably the one developed by Christiaan Huygens (you may have heard the name before; he's more famous as an astronomer) in the 17th Century. It ran on gunpowder and was designed to operate water pumps for the palace gardens at Versailles.
When was a two -stroke dirt bike built?
First Engine Ever InventedSo now we know that the first motorcycle was built by either Otto or Daimler but we still don't know who made the first engine to get the motorcycle to run. Well apparently the first engine to be invented was by the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1678 and ran on gunpowder but he never actually got around to actually building it. A few hundred years later a guy named Etienne Lenoir built an internal combustion engine much like Huygens model, only this one ran on gasoline. Then in 1866 Nikolaus Otto teamed up with a guy named Eugen Langen and they made a better internal combustion engine. All these engines so far have been two-strokes, but in 1876 Otto developed what we know today as the four-stroke internal combustion engine.
