Eli5: Why do automobiles operate with diesel or petrol but not with water?

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Eli5: Why do automobiles operate with diesel or petrol but not with water?

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Internal combustion engines use fuels that explode so that small explosion drives the pistons in the engine.

Water doesn’t readily expel its energy like that. The energy required to break the bonds of the water molecule are much higher than the energy it would release.

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