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I was rabbitholeing physics videos and came across vacuum boiling water. Could we safely vacuum boil gasoline, I wonder?

They say that the fuel "atomized" when it is injected into the cylinder but that is obviously a misnomer, as it's more like misted, like a windex shot. "Molecularized" would be more proper but the fuel is still in liquid form anyway so whatever.

I'm sure gasoline fume is what actually burns so just pumping that into the engine instead of liquid would drop the consumption without losing horsepower, I think.

Sounds dangerous but with the right measures in place I think it could work, maybe with a carburetor instead of direct injection.

Thoughts?

I was rabbitholeing physics videos and came across vacuum boiling water. Could we safely vacuum boil gasoline, I wonder? They say that the fuel "atomized" when it is injected into the cylinder but that is obviously a misnomer, as it's more like misted, like a windex shot. "Molecularized" would be more proper but the fuel is still in liquid form anyway so whatever. I'm sure gasoline fume is what actually burns so just pumping that into the engine instead of liquid would drop the consumption without losing horsepower, I think. Sounds dangerous but with the right measures in place I think it could work, maybe with a carburetor instead of direct injection. Thoughts?

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From the technological mechanical standpoint we've pushed the internal combustion engine about to its limit of power output. What I was trying to relay was, boiling gasoline would consume more energy then it would put out and be extremely dangerous in an accident. You can also look at it this way, after it's injected it fires immediately. There's no need to boil it at all.