Can a car run on the Moon? I am talking about standard 4 stroke combustion cylinder petrol engine?
There is Air on the moon, but it isn’t enough. And it doesn’t have enough of the flavor of gas, Oxygen. The only option is to carry your own Oxygen in a tank, and you will probably want to carry the associated amount of Nitrogen so it runs normally. If you burn 1 kilogram of gasoline, you will likely burn 15 kg of the Air mixture. If your tank contains pure oxygen, and your engine is designed for it, you will need 4 times as much oxygen mass as gasoline mass. If you think it is expensive to fill tank 1 with 20 gallons of gasoline, imagine how expensive it is to fill the other with 2000 gallons of compressed pure oxygen, or 9000 gallons of compressed air.
