What is the difference in an Engine, and a Motor?

[speedminded]

engine runs on gas, motor is electric.

bingo!

Motors simply rotate.

Engines are pumps that have directional energy changed to rotaional by a crankshaft.

exactly.

well if you wanna get technical, to me a motor in general is something electrical, and an engine is something thats stuck in cars that eats gas all day LoL

you said it!



I refuse to call an internal combustion engine a motor. The starter is a motor, the alternator can be a motor with modifications, but the engine is not a motor. It's an engine. Motors turn electrical energy into mechanical energy. Engines turn thermal energy into mechanical energy. Two completely different things.