Posts Tagged ‘engine work’:


How is my vehicle powered – how does petrol make my engine work? Part 3

Remember from Part 2: Think of each piston in your engine as the leg of a cyclist on a bike. Except you need to imagine the cyclist with four legs (a typical car has four cylinders) or maybe six, eight or more – so a fly on bike, or a spider on a bike.  To

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How is my vehicle powered – how does petrol make my engine work? Part 1

In a nutshell, the fuel our car uses is a specific ‘fraction’ extracted from the refining of crude oil, which is a naturally occurring liquid, formed from the remains of animals and plants that lived millions of years ago, and were compressed by billions of gallons of sea water. Imagine crude oil is a box

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