[enkeivette]

It's a good thing you guys called it motorgen, enginegen just sounds racist.

[enkeivette]

Wow, you see what's funny after studying property? ...sad.

[SeanPlunk]

I think I speak for everyone, when I simply say

[heypal]

[enkeivette]

Someone posted a thread on another forum about the difference between the term engine and motor. Got me thinking.

I wrote simply engine = combustion, motor = electric. Eventhough, everyone, including General MOTORS, uses the word motor to describe engines.

[Vettezuki]

Originally Posted by enkeivette

Someone posted a thread on another forum about the difference between the term engine and motor. Got me thinking.

I wrote simply engine = combustion, motor = electric. Eventhough, everyone, including General MOTORS, uses the word motor to describe engines.

It's a common false assertion based on incomplete knowledge.

Motor from the Latin root movere, to move or impart motion.

any of various power units that develop energy or impart motion: as a : a small compact engine b : internal combustion engine; especially : a gasoline engine c : a rotating machine that transforms electrical energy into mechanical energy

Motor Trend
Motor Craft
Best Motoring
Department of Motor Vehicles
...

The mistake is the assumption that motor refers exclusively to an electrical motor.

However, what I DID NOT know when we were considering names is that Motorgen was a common vernacular term for Motor Generator. My thought was Motor Generation, as in the technical and mechanized world, apart from previous millennia of human existence.

[enkeivette]

I didn't know that either, wouldn't worry too much.