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minus-squareTehdastehdas@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·29 days agoBack when electric cars were uncool, BMW tried adding a little bit of steam to their cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosteamer Anything to avoid giving up the toxic unreliable rube-goldbergian fossil-fueled mess, anything but the beautiful simplicity of electricity.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·28 days agoOkay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoYOU JUST GAVE ME THE BEST WORST IDEA what if we built a teensy helios 1 on top of a car to boil water while driving. like a mr fusion. we could have espresso!
Back when electric cars were uncool, BMW tried adding a little bit of steam to their cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosteamer
Anything to avoid giving up the toxic unreliable rube-goldbergian fossil-fueled mess, anything but the beautiful simplicity of electricity.
Okay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.
YOU JUST GAVE ME THE BEST WORST IDEA
what if we built a teensy helios 1 on top of a car to boil water while driving. like a mr fusion. we could have espresso!