Motor or engine?

  • Lynn Seiler
    Posts: 64
    May 21, 2022 at 9:45 pm #2126010

    I was taught at an early age the motors run on electricity and engines run on combustion. There seems to acceptance that in boating and autos motors is an okay term. What say you?

    Iowaboy1
    Posts: 3956
    May 21, 2022 at 10:01 pm #2126013

    Smokey Yunick was never heard to say, I think we blew the engine.
    And if you do any historical research, an engine was a trebuchet but that was three thousand years ago.

    Jimmy Jones
    Posts: 3455
    May 22, 2022 at 7:03 am #2126041

    either/or

    mo·tor
    [ˈmōdər]
    NOUN
    a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts.

    Pat K
    Empire, MN
    Posts: 958
    May 22, 2022 at 11:03 am #2126070

    I think years ago in physics I was taught a motor is anything that converts energy into motion.

    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 25422
    May 22, 2022 at 12:03 pm #2126074

    Why do you suppose a car junkie is called a motorhead?

    keppenhiemer
    (507) MN
    Posts: 142
    May 22, 2022 at 4:30 pm #2126109

    because his love of tesla and Prius automobiles

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