cartoon: improving the electric car

Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Edward Green wrote:
>
> > I was just rooting for the Chrysler concept "turbine car" of the
60's,
> > which sported jet exhaust. I think one of the problems was that
the
> > exhaust was liable to ignite anything directly behind the vehicle,
as
> > well as melting the asphalt.
>
> That's a funny joke (if you're in 4th grade, which is just about the
last
> time it's considered clever and funny to make stupid **** up just for
> giggles). The turbine cars neither ignited anything behind them nor
melted
> any asphalt. The persistent bugaboo was NOx emission control. It
could
> probably be rather easily done today, but when the plug was pulled on
> turbine car development in 1982, Chrysler had about $0.04 to its
name.

I remember seeing them come off the Davison X-Way sometimes.
While turbines have their own emissions problems, I read that one of
the main reasons the program halted was that the government emission
standards would not budge from the recipricating engine standard to
allow promising technology to develop. That's just another way of
saying what you said I guess.