Really, asshole? Why, just because I mentioned a carb just to give an example of the conditions where fuel will readily burn??? And because I used a carb in my example as easy to understand, you just assumed I thought cars still run on carbs? Not that there is really anything wrong with carbs just that with electronics, you can get greater efficiency and especially simplicity, control and reliability with a direct port fuel injection. The operative word is trying to meet federal fuel efficiency and emission standards. You probably don't want to know just how involved with cars I've really been!
Wrong again, asshole. I was talking about the power plant. All secondary uses aside, the primary need for a battery in a car is to have a source to generate the spark and compress the mixture to get the engine started. With few exceptions, most every other use for stored electricity in a gas car after that is non-essential to the primary operation of the plant to move the car around.
My carbs are in my basement, not the garage. I have a lot of car parts: ring gears, manifolds, carbs, a whole shelf full of Auto Meter gauges, all kinds of stuff leftover from my car-building days. Even a Mallory dual-point racing distributor.
Better idea, asshole--- --- just shove it up your fat ass.