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Over the years, cars have had many kinds of engines: steam, gasoline, diesel, and electric.
Most common are reciprocating internal combustion Engines. Most are 4-stroke gas/petrol engines. Some use LNG, some ethanol, some diesel. There have been 2-stroke motors, too. And some rotary engines: mostly Wankel, but also the occasional gas turbine.
Steam engines were external combustion, with drawbacks in start-up and power output.
Electric cars may use onboard generators, or batteries, or both (hybrid vehicles).
Future cars may use electric fuel cells powered by hydrogen gas and compressed oxygen.
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