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  2. Power tool - Wikipedia

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    A few tools (called powder-actuated tools) are powered by explosive cartridges. Tools that run on gasoline or gasoline-oil mixes are made for outdoor use; typical examples include most chainsaws and string trimmers. Other tools like blowtorches will burn their fuel externally to generate heat. Compressed air is universally used where there is a ...

  3. Petrol engine - Wikipedia

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    A petrol engine (gasoline engine in American and Canadian English) is an internal combustion engine designed to run on petrol (gasoline). Petrol engines can often be adapted to also run on fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas and ethanol blends (such as E10 and E85 ).

  4. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    A Tesla Model Y electric car, the world's best-selling car in the first and second quarters of 2023. The modern era is normally defined as the 40 years preceding the current year. [ 70 ] The modern era has been one of increasing standardization , platform sharing , and computer-aided design —to reduce costs and development time—and of ...

  5. Automotive engine - Wikipedia

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    The electric cars offered low pollution and a soundless ride, unlike their gasoline counterparts. The greatest downside of electric cars was the range. The typical electric car could reach around 20 miles before requiring a recharge. Manufacturers could not increase the number of batteries, due to the bulkiness of the batteries at the time ...

  6. Motor fuel - Wikipedia

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    A motor fuel is a fuel that is used to provide power to the engine of motor vehicles — typically a heat engine that produces thermal energy via oxidative combustion of liquid or gaseous fuel and then converts the heat into mechanical energy through reciprocating pistons or gas turbines.

  7. History of gasoline - Wikipedia

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    That figure does not include gasoline used by the Army inside the U.S. [51] Motor fuel production had declined from 701 million barrels (111.5 × 10 ^ 6 m 3; 3,940 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft)in 1941 down to 208 million barrels (33.1 × 10 ^ 6 m 3; 1,170 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) in 1943. [52]

  8. General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine - Wikipedia

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    The final design General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine (GMRCE) was fixed when responsibility for the power plant's manufacture was turned over to General Motors Hydra Matic Division in August 1972 – two rotors displacing 206 cubic inches (3.38 L), twin distributors and coils, and a switch to aluminum housing construction.

  9. Petrol-paraffin engine - Wikipedia

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    A cutaway view of the intake of the original Fordson tractor (including the intake manifold, vaporizer, carburetor, and fuel lines).. A petrol-paraffin engine differs from a single-fuel petrol engine in that two independent fuel tanks containing petrol and paraffin (respectively) are required, but both fuels may be supplied through the same carburetor or fuel injection system.