Then there’s the issue of exploding battery packs but I hear that you really have to be careless to have problems. Much like handling liquid fuels, I guess. Pros and con for both. Those who were weaned on electric have trouble with real engines and those of us who are mechanically inclined, find the math, watts, amps, joules,, kind of bothersome.

We of the 60s generation called them glow engines, they used a glow plug as opposed to gas using a spark plug or diesel which used neither. Glow engines most often use fuel that contains nitro methane but not all engines require nitro or use it at all. In Europe, nitro is extremely expensive so they build their engines to run with NO nitro. Could you then call THEM nitro??

How they do that is to increase the compression ratio to regain most of the power loss that no nitro causes. They then have to play with timing and other elements to make the engine user friendly. Often, when European engines are imported to North America, nitro fuel is used and that can be detrimental to the performance of an engine that was designed to run on a no nitro fuel.

BTW, glow fuel contains methanol as the main combustible. Nitro-methane while also a combustible, also contains oxygen molecules that aid combustion. This delivers more power at lower compression settings. Nitro also has the benefit of better throttling. Some performance addicts run 60% nitro in small engines such as 1/2A (.049)

Maybe I’m splitting hairs but I’m a gearhead, can’t help it. See my YouTube videos,, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6OYUorx9U