Cars run on explosions
While they can it’s unlikely, not all burning of stuff is an explosion, and not all electricity is made with burning stuff.
If you are charging up your Tesla with a generator, maybe, but where fossil fuels are burned in powerplants it’s incredibly unlikely that it’s an explosion in an internal combustion engine. Generally it’s a big fire that heats water to steam.
this is not true. They run on controlled burns. When explosions happen that’s the engine knocking, which is a bad thing
It’s a fast controlled burn with forces that could cause much destruction but is instead directed into rotational movement. The difference between an engine knocking and not knocking is pretty small, so I’d argue either both cases are explosions or neither are. Explosion isn’t a very scientific word anyway
it’s a fast controlled burn propagating subsonically. Which is what makes it a burn instead of a detonation.
