how do cars use gas?

Question: how do cars use gas?
- Keywords:
  car,
  pollution
Asked by dalta2 to Tiernan, Sonia, Mossy, Maureen on 15 Nov 2018.
- Maureen answered on 15 Nov 2018:
  
  Car engines explode the gas in a controlled reaction. The energy generated by the explosion powers the car.
  
  There’s a neat old timey video about it here:
- Sonia Lenehan answered on 16 Nov 2018:
  
  This is a great article to explain how this works! https://www.explainthatstuff.com/carengines.html

Question: how do cars use gas?