Well, sort of. What happens when you run out of fuel (hydrocarbon or electric)? You have to know that it's a hydrocarbon-based engine, more so you need to know it's a spark-based engine (gasoline), not a pressure based engine (diesel), or even something else (CNG).

Also, if I want to get the most performance out of the car, or do something nonstandard, I need to know about the energy extraction process in order to pick better fuel or to adjust timings in the engine. (Sure most people won't, but if you want to, it's nice to have the information available).

True, but cars deal with this by having separate manuals for normal owners and for maintenance. Owners usually need information like how often to change the oil and what pressure the tires should be at, but they're less likely to need engine timings.

Git's documentation (from what I hear, anyway, I've barely used it outside the GitHub client) seems like it's written to say "Everyone using git is a programmer, so everyone using git wants to know about git's implementation details."

As someone who would rather have a handle on the basics (and 99% of use cases) before digging into that, google does a better job at explaining what things are for. Which works, but I really wouldn't mind having some canonical user-friendly documentation available instantly on my computer.

No, I don't need to know the exact details of the engine. Your cars manual probably does not list the exact engine timings either. It says "fill in diesel here." If I want to tune my car I read the workshop manual, not the user manual. I totally support that the workshop manual exists, but git is lacking a users manual. I can explain my tester to run automatic tests, I can teach them git, but if I point any of them at the gut manual, I get a blank stars. It technobabble to them.