SgtSki in MI
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- Oct 14, 2007
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- Metal Detecting
SgtSki's Virtual Car Show #3: Steam & Electric Vehicles
OK, here's another group of cars that got down the road propelled by something other than an internal combustion engine. Something to think about in this day and age when gasoline costs what it does. Electric propulsion is something that is very seriously being worked on again and some very efficient designs are emerging, like the Tesla Roadster. But what about steam? While they were never very efficient with regard to operating range, you could make a vehicle propelled by heating up water, which jst becomes water again when the steam is exhausted. If you heated the boiler with methane, then you have a heating means that is a renewable resource. You can also use methane to power an internal combustion engine, and Sweden is experimenting with this right now with Taxicabs.
Anyway, here's some steam & electric vehicles from way back when.:
1896 Whitney Steam Runabout
1899 Locomobile Steam Runabout
Studebaker Electric Victoria Phaeton
1903 Stanley Model B
1907 Studebaker Electric Runabout
1908 White Model K Steamer
1909 Baker Electric Brougham (owned by Jay Leno)
1910 Stanley Model 63 Touring Car
1914 Detroit Electric Gentlemen's Brougham. Electric cars generally had a wider appeal to women due to their being clean, quiet, and simple to operate. Detroit Electric introduced the "Gentlemen's" line of electric autos in an attempt to expand their customer base.
1914 Detroit Electric Gentlemen's Roadster
Detroit Electric Model 60-98S Brougham
1924 Doble Steamer. This is an extremely rare vehicle. It represents the last hurrah for steam-powered cars. The boiler was very advanced and was lit by turning the key instead of having to pre-heat a vaporizer tube for the fuel and then manually lighting the burner,on older steam cars. A Doble could have it's boiler up to operating pressure in about 90 seconds, as opposed to 40-45 minutes on the old Stanley's.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this batch of cars. I don't know what I'm going to put together next.
HH,
SgtSki
OK, here's another group of cars that got down the road propelled by something other than an internal combustion engine. Something to think about in this day and age when gasoline costs what it does. Electric propulsion is something that is very seriously being worked on again and some very efficient designs are emerging, like the Tesla Roadster. But what about steam? While they were never very efficient with regard to operating range, you could make a vehicle propelled by heating up water, which jst becomes water again when the steam is exhausted. If you heated the boiler with methane, then you have a heating means that is a renewable resource. You can also use methane to power an internal combustion engine, and Sweden is experimenting with this right now with Taxicabs.
Anyway, here's some steam & electric vehicles from way back when.:
1896 Whitney Steam Runabout
1899 Locomobile Steam Runabout
Studebaker Electric Victoria Phaeton
1903 Stanley Model B
1907 Studebaker Electric Runabout
1908 White Model K Steamer
1909 Baker Electric Brougham (owned by Jay Leno)
1910 Stanley Model 63 Touring Car
1914 Detroit Electric Gentlemen's Brougham. Electric cars generally had a wider appeal to women due to their being clean, quiet, and simple to operate. Detroit Electric introduced the "Gentlemen's" line of electric autos in an attempt to expand their customer base.
1914 Detroit Electric Gentlemen's Roadster
Detroit Electric Model 60-98S Brougham
1924 Doble Steamer. This is an extremely rare vehicle. It represents the last hurrah for steam-powered cars. The boiler was very advanced and was lit by turning the key instead of having to pre-heat a vaporizer tube for the fuel and then manually lighting the burner,on older steam cars. A Doble could have it's boiler up to operating pressure in about 90 seconds, as opposed to 40-45 minutes on the old Stanley's.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this batch of cars. I don't know what I'm going to put together next.
HH,
SgtSki
