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ELI5: how does gasoline power a car? (pls explain like I’m a dumb 5yo)

Edit: holy combustion engines Batman, this certainly blew up. thanks friends!
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Gasoline, when it evaporates in air, forms a mixture that will burn.

When this mixture burns, it gets very hot, and hot gases want to expand.

So we take the mixture, put it in a tube, squish it, and light it off. The expanding hot gas pushes quite hard on the plunger inside of the tube. We use this pushing force to spin a wheel, and this wheel is connected to more wheels/tubes. Together they create enough pushing power to move a car.