Gasoline is a fuel with gasoline for spark ignition internal combustion engines.

Since the success of 1876 created the compression process of single cylinder, four-stroke gas machine, internal combustion engine can develop rapidly. But the gas transport to bring inconvenience, so people started to use the oil in the volatile light elements. 1883 German manufacturing success Daimler gasoline engine, and carry it to the transport of gasoline as fuel.

    Diesel gasoline than light, low cost, low noise, low temperature start is better, but the lower thermal efficiency and fuel consumption rate is high. Motorcycle, chainsaw and other small power machinery, for the sake of light, cheap, used air-cooled two-stroke gasoline engine; fixed low-power gasoline engine for the sake of simple structure, reliable and low cost, most with four-stroke water-cooled ; cars and light trucks were mostly used for water-cooled overhead valve gasoline engine, Fuel economy but with the increased focus on diesel cars in Zhe Lei Shang Ying Yong gradually wide; Xiaoxingfeiji Suo seek with light and liter engine power for the large, mostly with the hemisphere Xing air-cooled gasoline engine combustion chamber.

    The emergence of gasoline contributed to the development of transport, in turn, promoted the oil industry. Before World War II, has been used as a small gasoline engine to one kW of agricultural, horticultural machinery of power, great to thousands of kilowatts of aircraft engines. After World War II, due to the development of diesel engines and gas turbines, gasoline use has narrowed, but still low-power internal combustion engines, motorcycles, cars, small aircraft and light truck engine in the model.