never happen, the elites won’t give up their gas powered machines, they’ll insist we give up ours but they will never relinquish the convenience of internal combustion
There is no particular sanctity in internal combustion engines. Before internal combustion engines, there were EXTERNAL combustion engines, specifically steam engines, that used the power of steam to generate rotational power. They needed no auxiliary electrical apparatus for either starting or continued operation, though they were exceptionally good at providing energy input to generate electricity.
Much of the early automotive engineering was directed at utilizing steam power as a medium for converting heat energy into kinetic energy. The Stanley Steamer easily outperformed most internal-combustion powered vehicles in the early years. It was largely Henry Ford’s capability of vastly outproducing steam vehicles with the Model T, that finally forced steam power into eclipse, though the technology of steam continued to evolve, through the eccentric genius of Abner Doble.
Abner Doble gambled on steam. Doble built his first steam car while still in high school. He left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue his dream of building the finest steam car in the world. By 1918 he had built 80 steam cars in Detroit. He drove up to the Stanley factory in Massachusetts, and showed his marvel to the Stanley brothers, thinking they could adapt his much more sophisticated engine design, but they firmly told young Mr. Doble they knew everything they had to know about steam, would he please run along. Abner went back and organized a manufacturing facility, but he could not help continuing to tinker with his design, so no two vehicles were ever quite the same, and he never got into serious production. The 1924 model Doble steam car, which could run for 1,500 miles on a 24-gallon tank, had a flash boiler that could produce a working head of steam in one minute. This was more than equal to the reliability of even luxury vehicles of the era, but the company failed anyway. These vehicles ran in near silence, the loudest sound coming from the ignition of the flame that heated the flash boiler.
The design was tried by General Motors in the 1960’s, but the internal combustion culture that ruled the automobile industry still reasserted itself, and the idea was abandoned. There was even a Doble design airplane engine built, and it flew successfully, as it was light enough to be competitive with contemporary internal combustion designs, and more than adequate in its power output.
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-last-great-steam-car/