Petrol engine

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A gasoline engine is understood to mean an internal combustion engine that is operated with motor gasoline ; Colloquially, it means the gasoline engine . With gasoline u. a. also operated the Wankel engine and aircraft engines ; Multi-fuel engines such as the hot-head engine and some diesel engines can be operated with diesel fuel as well as with gasoline: Rudolf Diesel's first functional diesel engine was suitable for operation with motor gasoline and light gasoline , diesel engines with the MAN-M process are suitable for gasoline with up to 86 octane. For some diesel engines not designed for operation with petrol (e.g. BMW M21 ), a mixture of petrol and gas oil is permitted in an emergency .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Diesel: The Origin of the Diesel Engine . Springer, Berlin 1913, ISBN 978-3-642-64940-0 . P. 110
  2. ^ MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG (Ed.): Performance and way: On the history of MAN commercial vehicle construction . Jumper. Berlin, Heidelberg. 1991. ISBN 978-3-642-93490-2 . P. 438
  3. ↑ Operating Instructions BMW E28 . 4-20