* Steam power Jun 28, 2008
Steam cars used to be quite the thing ... Im not saying were all going to be driving steam cars but the technology could have other uses, he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ford Fuel Cell Car Goes 200 MPH at the Bonneville Salt Flats Aug 19, 2007
For the last hundred years there s little doubt fossil fuels would have been used to power a hypothetical fleet of steam cars. The greenhouse gas savings, if any, would have been much smaller than you suppose. (New York Times)
Full steam ahead Aug 3, 2007
Their steam cars were popular in the early years of the 20th century before being overtaken by the internal-combustion engine. One of the legendary steam cars was a red racer that was clocked at 127 ... Wasson traces his interest in steam cars back to growing up on a farm in Canada, where he was fascinated with steam-powered threshing machines. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Steady and efficient wins Jul 3, 2007
Gillespie points out that a century ago various sorts of electric and steam cars ran the roads and the first diesel engines were designed to run on peanut oil. "Then the oil companies happened and the rest is history," he says. (Ithaca Times, NY)
Electric car murdered twice Nov 3, 2006
"I was astonished when I found out [that] 100 years ago there were as many electric cars as there were gasoline cars on the road. In fact, they'd have these races between electric cars, gas cars and steam cars.". Unfortunately for the environment, a combination of oil discoveries in Texas and Henry Ford's mass production of the internal combustion engine left the electric car bleeding in the gutter. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Steamers, after a slow start, hold their own at today's speed limits Mar 11, 2006
The notion of steam cars seems quaint today, but they were a natural offshoot of an age when much of industry was powered by pressurized steam ... Even the most innovative makers of steam cars were not impervious to developments in other technologies: The introduction of the electric starter on the 1912 Cadillac sealed their fate ... While gasoline-powered cars became transportation on demand, steam cars still needed up to half an hour for the entire process of lighting the burners and... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Daytona 500: Jay Leno - GM Racing ... Feb 20, 2006
" WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CAR TO DRIVE? "I have a lot of steam cars. They are just a lot of fun. (Motor Sport)
