The Jet Cars That Could Have Changed The World 

I ordered a jet car, where's my god d@mn jet car Bruce!!

Weird how the batmobile seems to have a piston engine or a jet depending on how fast its going

Do they come in black?

@@wizard_of_poz4413 It has both.

@@Blaman44 beat me to it

God that’s a power move, “oh you spent 5,000$ on gas? Buddy I’m buying weed spray by the tanker”

I like how regular gas lead just damages it in every way but ppl back then didn't care gas was 2 bucks

that's something i believe the video got wrong is there's about 100 road cars made as leasing/testing deals just like the GM-EV1 was and yes it's BS that both didn't have a buy out option as both cars were loved by the owners/drivers now the engine was planed on replacing the BBM/hemi eventually ( so the 440-6 or 426 would have been a 3 to 5 year ish run vs a 10~ year run ) so yes it was ready but just like the max-wedge or the 426-hemi it was a expensive option ( and image what the high-end actions would bring as a price premium $$$$ in 2022 as a rare oem optioned car/truck probably more than the BBM-hemi numbers matching factory installation ) but about the same amount extra to a build sheet aka 426=1970 usd 500-ish so the turban was 300-800 usd extra from base-trim and yes a lot of people probably would have bought it and it passed the EPA testing but the transmission was a let down ( but evan to me today in 2022 it's the top option for dodge engines, and this family has/is planning on a 4-door dart with the jet-shaft and a different transmission/hybrid and my pre-1970 charger 540-hemi/TR6070-hybridisation ) and leftover's from the V8's aka 727 non locking automatic so it wastes MPG which in the 1960-71 was meh ( most people or the dealership's didn't care for the opportunity they were just happy to have automatic feeling as better transmissions had be tried before prior to 1966 and had a resurgents in the 2000's-now ) ( my 2022 understanding is with improvements 40-70 MPG @ 80mph on freeway's using regular ULSD diesel fuel ) but the government's changing that in the 1975-ish so the carfa/mpg requirement's didn't pass after that and the Alison-250 is directly related to the dodge jet/research/platform so the program didn't suck management for whatever reason didn't have the guts to sell it and take the nessary risks to win i 🤷‍♂️🤔 maybe the government 🇺🇸 stepped in and stopped it as they were weird about rockets 🚀 and jet/advanced technologies being sold in the public sector's and the same goes for the knowledge of how to operate and make them and still are as ITAD laws are on the books. so now were stuck with L4 boosted to the moon as new 2022 model year on average sad 😢

Nothing quite like giving cancer to everyone behind you on the road

@@richardprice5978 I ain't reading all that lmao

Interesting.

Very intriguing

the only problem is the cost of infrastructure and who designed/installed/maintained it the amount of finger pointing would be unreal.

i think it sounds dangerously easy to vandalise

you know an even better idea? it is something that already exists... Rails

@@Holesale00 That description reminds me of "Solar Freakin' Roadways!" and how dumb and unpractical that one sounded.

@@amberhide04 We need more trains in the US

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It's but a Husk of it's former Hub.

Just build one. Bob Lazar did it. 😆

Considering that I'm not working in engine manufacturing or fabrication nor do I have enough money to pay gas reliably these days, I don't think that's possible

but there is no vtec kick in tho

Airline mechanics and vehicle mechanics would be the same job… imagine if people had abandoned jet engines in their yard? Flying cars probably would’ve advanced if people both maintained and repaired turbine engines…

@@Nahan_Boker94 no vtec, only whoosh

Working with jet engines makes you start loving the sound lol.

@@dakotamatata because your hearing becomes so bad that's the only thing you'll hear again.

I hear the driver won an award!

It's an auto industry legend. it was so cool, and so powerful, it could make people excited to drive it. but it trusted in it's short term results too much, and was defeated by economics and circumstances.

Is it possible to learn this technology?

Some people consider a turbine powered car to be unnatural

@@danielbickford3458 the jet engine makes it stronger, gives it focus

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In the 1980's, Oldsmobile made a coal powered car.

For a while Ariel Motors was working on making an electric vehicle which would use a turbine to recharge the batteries. It looks like the launch of the vehicle was canceled due to the pandemic, and all mentions of the car in recent years seem to imply that it won't include a turbine anymore.

The first tank fitted with a gas turbine was a turretless British Caernarvon but it was just a testbed, the first productiont tank with a turbine was the Swedish Strv 103. There are several other tanks with turbines but the most notable other than the M1 and Strv 103 is the Russian T-80

The main issue with turbines, even today, is that they have horrible idling and burn through gas when doing so. This is why the Abrams needs an exterior power station for it's computerized systems so that the turbine doesn't need to be on during idle. The internal combustion engine however while still not being great with idle, is better able to ramp up and ramp down. And since the main targets of the automobile industry are in cities, where idle time is expected, it likely would have been viewed as a horrible purchase only for those trying to show off. But beyond that turbines also produce a lot of noise close up because of their high frequency sound waves, while this dampens out at further ranges and makes it even quieter than diesel engines at longer distances, the cities are also compact and this noise would likely be very annoying.

@@mikoi7472 Good argument. The noise issue is definitely a major turn off for everyone.

Mitsubishi made a plug in hybrid concept car with a gas turbine a few years ago

they are still too loud, expensive, precise, maintenance heavy, and thirsty for consumer mass production

I've mentioned this elsewhere in the comments, but Ariel Motors was working on a turbine-electric hybrid, but its launch was canceled due to the pandemic. The turbine was only 80hp, compared to the 1,000+hp output from the electric motors, so it would only provide enough power to keep the batteries charged under light driving. We have the technology, there just isn't enough of a benefit to get investments from major manufacturers, and only a few small manufacturers are willing to take the risk.

@@misterdeedeedee sounds like an early electric car minus the loud part

@@misterdeedeedee If nobody take an effort to fix those earlier issues which I think they did try to improve on but the economic and oil crisis killed its chance for a comeback.

Somebody misinterpreted the phrase "trying to reinvent the wheel" and took it as a challenge 🤣

i really prefer when cars looked pretty even if it wasn't always efficent. now we have bland cookie cutter cars and may get 25 miles a gallon but have no spark to them. i guess the gas crises and the rising price of everything made this all inevitable but its tough man

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Though you can also understand why if you look back. Like compare the cars that came before like the model T compared to the model A. The jet cars really are just a continuation of the same design idea.

Before the pandemic, Arial Motors was working on making an electric vehicle which would use a turbine motor to recharge mid-drive. However, it looks like this concept has been scraped, even though the vehicle has been fully designed and tested.

I imagine gas companies wouldn't be too keen on cars using something that could run on a variety of fuels.

i do believe that some clever gimmicks of a turbine hybrid car can be real, but it would require some very complicated mechatronics to work properly, such as thermal conditioned catalytic converters that can heat and cool eletronically controlled, variable angle of attack turbine fan blades so the jet engine has finer control of shaft momentum on urban enviorioments, high RPM E motors so you don't waste fuel spinning up the engine or loosing engine RPM, full EV mode at speeds lower than 30mph and such, a extremely robust CVT transmission so the jet engine stays at highest efficiency RPM all the time, and most importantly the car must be a light as possible, essentially just a jet prius, not very exciting but a total nut for physics-engineering enthusiasts.

@@toninhosoldierhelmet4033 >essentially just a jet prius The Prius' transmission would actually be extremely well suited to turbine power. It consists of a differential between the motor and the driveshaft, so that the motor can spin out of sync from the driveshaft. The other output of the differential is connected to a generator which powers the electric motors/battery. The amount of resistance applied by the generator can be varied to keep the motor at it's most efficient operating speed. When traveling at a constant speed, the transmission effectively acts as a direct mechanical connection.

​@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 yeah this is the stuff, idk right but as far as i know this is one of the piling reasons why turbine powered cars were dropped, the engines have an extreme RPM range with a narrow efficiency spot in there, idk the exacts tho.

Not that surprising given how in 1 year ours went from under 5$ to under 9$

People would steal the magnets on roads that aren't paved.

I disagree, this new take on the channel is substantially better

I like them both equally, but I think he sounded sad here.

People may lack the ability to know the joke, you need to be formal on the internet

@@Dumb-Comment Username checks out.

Imagine if the singing in ads continue to this day

Like a pile of feline-friendly laundry

Could someone make a mod to include those trucks?

@@PASH3227 I don't see why not? It could be hard though because they are rare.

The Abrams MBT was designed solely to burn through an ungodly amount of fuel so the oil companies could have jacked-up government contracts.

I don’t think it will be replaced anytime. The addition of an APU mitigates the fuel consumption problems. Also, the Abrams is heavier than the Leo 2. The KF51 can use the diesel engine for the Leo 2 as it is lighter as some of the armor was reduced due to the presence of a hardkill APS (T90 APS Shorta is just soft kill).

@@shaider1982 the gas turbine is actually going to be replaced by a diesel from what I've heard about general dynamics teaser of its next gen abrams, look up next gen abrams and you'll see discussions, news outlets and so on including promotional material with one of them titled "silent strike" and a entirely new look of the abrams with even a new remotly controlled autocannon turret on top, but this is only for that new model, I don't think the older models will have engine replacements and changes to the new model could happen to return to the gas turbine between the teaser info and the production model and the info from these sources could be wrong so who knows.

Dying? The majority of the US Navy is all GT now, and most Electrical plants use Gas Turbines fired off Natural Gas. Gas Turbines have a huge advantage in that they don't have a power stroke, its always making power, hence why they are sometimes used in place of Diesel.

Kinda yes, but Fallout cars have nuclear engines.

Ah Car Town. Really miss it.

@@PlatinumNath I ran Wakaba Garage, did you ever see any of my stuff around? I’ve actually been writing some blogs over there lately, telling the stories behind some of my skins.

@@TBustah I think I saw your page before by chance. Looks neat, seeing it again now. Just seeing Car Town again brings back memories

There's a truck startup doing this called edison motors in which they use electric drive-train with a diesel motor functioning as a generator, if the generator turns on it only runs at peak efficiency

@@inconspicuousperson7759 actually to be more efficient thing would be to just use diesel and skip the electrical. The only way hybrids increase fuel efficiency is through things like regenerative braking and such. Because any time you convert one form of energy to another you lose efficiency. It's why electric cars that get charged by a fossil fuel burning power plant is far less efficient and worse for the environment. We got to first stop using fossil fuels for power otherwise electric cars are worse for the environment.

Even if using an electric motor, a tank never moves quietly.

I hope for a future with overwhelming computing power, mind uploading, limitless life spans, intelligence augmentation, and AI that will create any world with a request. The actual future is guaranteed to be disappointing.