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Nice brief history of steam cars. Major US-based steam vehicle makers were White, Stanley, and Doble. Land speed records in the early days of the automobile were held by steam cars. There is significant history in this area, and GM was working on the idea of a steam car (using Doble patents) as late as the late 1960s.
Nice brief history of steam cars. Major US-based steam vehicle makers were White, Stanley, and Doble. Land speed records in the early days of the automobile were held by steam cars. There is significant history in this area, and GM was working on the idea of a steam car (using Doble patents) as late as the late 1960s.
In order to do this, there would have to be an infratructure of non-petroleum-based fuels for steam vehicles. Steam vehicles still burn something (coal, gasoline, LPG, hydrogen, almost anything that burns) so they still pollute (less than an internal combustion engine, though). It's not as clean as say electric vehicles charged with power supplied by nuclear power plants or solar/wind energy.Graham said:
