Wood Gasifiers: during WWII, vehicles ran on them

[MossRoad]

Gas generation is not a viable fuel for any of today's IC engines. High Compression ratios , Throttle by wire systems, engine management computers, etc. Would be insurmountable.

That's why you keep an older Chevy 5.7L around.

 

[Renze]

Gas generation is not a viable fuel for any of today's IC engines. High Compression ratios , Throttle by wire systems, engine management computers, etc. Would be insurmountable.

I would assume co-combustion in a diesel (with higher compression, yet no mixture compression) would be viable.