Old educational films can be incredibly informative. I learned electronics from army training films from the 40's and 50's. Outdated but very informative
While dated, still makes you appreciate the engineering, building upon the foundation of many previous decades. Still useful to illustrate the basic principles of the internal combustion engine for newcomers or the non technically inclined. And I love the nostalgia of it, especially the views of those 1970s and 1980s cars on a freeway somewhere. Ooh, 8.1:1 compression. Such power being made. lol.
PWM controlled internal combustion engine with some complex feedback circuitry? Hmmmm... :) It's interesting to see how engines have evolved over the course of a few decades, but that also means they're way harder to repair. Plus with the oil reserves being used up, something might finally have to replace them. Electric motors are an obvious choice, but energy storage is a problem that still needs to be solved. I like how the engine's principle of operation is explained - really simple and clear :)
JCB have developed hydrogen power using their long experience with ic engines and have installed them in some of their machines, they use mostly existing technology. This looks very promising particularly as the only remaining problem is green hydrogen production and distribution but they are pretty well solved so watch this space, there is lots of life in the old ic engine yet. E-cars are not green. They consume lots of power, rare earth materials in manufacture. So much so I have seen estimates that they only become less polluting of co² than ic motors at 75k miles then factor in a battery change! It will be interesting to see how this develops.
@@lesmaybury793 It's not a great solution, it has a massive NOx problem. On top of that is that hydrogen production is not very efficient, not a big problem with a efficient fuel cell but if you burn in a combustion engine (like JCB) with an efficiency of far less than 50% the overal performance becomes very low. So hydrogen in conventional engines has no future, still pollution the surroundings and very low performance. Have a look what they do in the mining industry, they went electric decades ago.
@@jhoughjr1 All cars only consume power. Only the storage medium is different. ICE's use fuel stored in a gas tank. EV's use electrons stored in a battery. And most EV's can drive 400+km on a single charge so the 'energy storage problem' of Keri does not exist. Only the price still needs to drop a little.
Wow thus was great. I went to college for automotive technology and I was super interesting to see what systems got replaced and what systems they mentioned that are still around in even the newest cars. Super cool! Fran, you're the best for making sure these films are available for anyone online. The internet is the world's repository of knowledge, but having excellent curators and archivists like you is vital to make it worth it!
When I hear that distorted musical open, I am taken back to the days when the projector cart would be wheeled in, the screen pulled down, the lights shut off, and we students would most likely have no responsibilities until the bell rang at the end of class.
I love how they would anthropomorphize the thing they are explaining. Reader’s Digest used to do that with articles like “I am Joe’s Pancreas”. But then you get lines like, “Underneath a removable pan holds the oil I need for lubrication.”
Better gas mileage? My 2007 Chevy Aveo get 23 MPG on its best day! Back in 1989 my 84 Ford Escort got 30+ MPG. I know, most cars get a lot better mileage nowadays mine is just a fluke. I was blessed & actually got to meet and speak with an engineer around 1992. He brought out some blueprints (3 Giant pages) for me then roll them out on my hood to look at. I told Him that I was learning how to read blueprints & he thought I would be interested in looking at these. This stuff was rocket science & Waaaay Beyond what I was learning! I asked him what in the world is this? He told me that it was" in a since, a type of "Carburetor" that got 75 miles per gallon with V8 engines." I said what?😲 Why the hell aren't we using them? He proceeded to tell me that the oil companies bought the rights to These Blueprints and it could not be manufactured. So help me God, this is a true story! Now, ...was this "retired" engineer who owned an auto parts store, Who was very eccentric. His part store was packed to the ceiling with rarest car parts you could find. Literally packed to the ceiling with, only an 18 inch wide path to walk through the store. He had 3 of the rarest 426 Hemi's at his house in crates, among other things & He strangely had 3 pages of intensely complicated blueprints. Was he telling me the truth, just because I told him I was learning how to read blueprints, He wanted me to see his 3 pages of blueprints? Or,... it was all for show??? You tell me!
Meanwhile in Japan and Europe... 3 cylinder engines, 10+ cylinder engines, and they were all spinning at more than 4800RPM(80*60) with more than 2 valves per cylinder and doing it more efficiently... lol
The US had built plenty of performance engines that would exceed 4800rpm and 4v engines as well. The biggest reason we didn't get a lot of the performance engines manufactured elsewhere in the world during that time is that they couldn't meet US emissions standards or, if they did, we got reduced power compared to their domestic ratings. The late 70s and early 80s were the "dark ages" of engines as power had taken a nose-dive from the 60s as the focus shifted to emissions reductions. Catalytic converters were horribly inefficient and restrictive, the smog pumps took additional engine power to pump air into the exhaust stream, compression ratios dropped to reduce NOx, etc. etc. But it was effective and started the development of materials for the much better systems to come later. I'm not saying these engines were great by any means, but there's a reason they were crap. The vast majority of the R&D budget was going into reducing emissions over anything else. That's also why you see a lot of engine platforms developed around the 1950s and 1960s staying in production through the 1980s! As an example - all production vehicles in the US from 1968 onwards had to reduce hydrocarbons in the exhaust by 72%, CO by 56% and have zero crankcase emissions as compared to 1963 numbers. This was a pretty mild first step but is where the "afterburner" smog pumps came into play and PCV system. Japan didn't adopt such controls until 1976 by which time the US had ratcheted the requirements up even more. I'd say it payed off significantly in the end...especially with the computer controls we have now. If you ever see a car with an LEV, ULEV, etc sticker on the window, that means it's like a 50% or greater reduction in emissions compared to a new vehicle in 2003. SULEV is 90%!! Sorry...nerded out there on engines. It's really a fascinating story of development. From the advent of the internal combustion engine to increased smoothness (crazy examples like the 1930s Cadillac v16s) to power to emissions reduction to economy...the evolution of the gasoline internal combustion engine is fascinating and it's still not over!
@@Engineer9736 The Japanese and Europeans were making production engines that absolutely embarrassed what the big three could do. Remember how GM swore you needed a catalytic converter to make their lumps of cast iron pass emissions, and Honda shamed them with nothing but a redesign of the cylinder head. The Japanese had 100HP 1.3L 4cyl N/A engines without turbos, or high octane fuel and full emissions gear.
One day we will remissness at an equivalent "The Electric Engine" old educational film as we travel in our autonomous ion propulsion displacement pods.
I am honestly surprised just how old computer-controlled direct injection systems are and just how much of the engine the computer could control even back then. Nowadays we have computers controlling every aspect, even the starter motor, to get the most efficiency possible. And a viable alternative to the ICE is emerging with the electric car, but the hybrid system using a 3-cylinder engine to power a generator for recharging the batteries is a popular stepping stone as it gets the milage of a conventional engine with the instant torque delivery of an electric motor.
looks like many here want to go from the ox cart to the Jetsons space car without the evolution it takes to get from one to the other. I guess Fran you better get busy making that transporter from StarTrek.
Enjoyed the movie and can apply the knowledge to help fix my lawnmower, etc. Quest for knowledge. :-) I took automotive in high school and it is helping all along. Can even change tires and a host of other repairs. Do not have to wait on the side of the road for CAA or AAA... hehehe... Know how to drive standard gearing. LOL
Visionary thing to archive and especially digitize, these 16mm old industry HR and ad agency productions that rank high in cultural influence, particularly in speed of change and expanse of consumption. Testosterone and Progesterone/Estrogen shaken, not stirred...
The primary motivator of the transverse mounted front wheel drive power plant is COST. It is far cheaper to make and assemble the single front wheel drive unit than the rear wheel drive system.
Let's not forget that GM did have a dalliance with a rear engine vehicle. The Sporty Corvair. "Unsafe At Any Speed". While the swing arm rear axle was dropped for the '65 model, the damage was already done to the cars' reputation. Furthermore, it was found that to get the swing arm axle to misbehave, you really had to work at the effort. Too little, too late.
amtsgedicht; You are missing something. There are 60 seconds in a minute so in 1 minute the piston will go up and down 60 X 80 = 4,800 times or 4800 RPM. Most 4 cylinder engines today will run at that speed safely, or even up to 6000 to 7000 RPM but they give best lifetime and fuel economy at around 2000 to 3000 RPM.
This says so much about GM and the early 1980’s. There’s the stilted 1950’s-60’s style of corporate messaging intersected with the nadir of the Marlboro man masculinity rise in the Reagan era.
I feel like I could write an essay on the character of this video. It's an omnipotent being comprised of all 4 stroke gasoline engines? LMAO. I hear cocaine was HUGE in the 80's!
RIP Olds and Pontiac. We hardly knew ye (or we knew ye too well, depends on the model.) I seem to recall Delco ended up being the world's highest volume computer manufacturer in the 80s, which makes sense since GM dropped an ECU into every single one of its cars from 1981, to do mixture control (for oxygen sensor controlled carburetion) or full fuel injection. GM was a big ship in those days. Didn't turn very fast, but once they decided to do something, best not stand in the way. American engines were pretty leisurely beasts, and the smaller engine attempts were often dreadful (the SOHC, metric PInto engine being a notable counterexample) but they had a lot of the small maintenance improvements the Europeans lacked. I had a 1977 VW Golf/Rabbit which had solid lifters instead of hydraulic, a cork valve cover gasket instead of anything else, and points instead of electronic ignition, which were all laughably obsolete, especially in a new model. But unlike the Bosch FI systems and the licensed Denso copies, by the mid 80s Ford and GM engine computers had onboard diagnostics, and the GM setup was comprehensive enough to be a major basis for the OBD2 standard. Designed to be repairable, unlike, say, any L-Jetronic equipped car, which never, ever idled right, because every single possible fault resulted in idle problems but no trouble calls. It took me moving to Detroit, and a number of years, to appreciate the domestics at all. But man, an American car would run like garbage for longer than a European car would run at all, when this film came out.
Interesting this was on film! I have a GM LaserDisc from 2 years earlier, when Computer Command Control was just being introduced. The view of the emissions and safety regulations being imposed wasn't as rosy in this presentation: watch?v=4ecKn7OmyNo
I'm going to have to give your description a dislike. Do you really think we we could have had viable hybrid or electric cars in 1982? Come the @#$% on, they're a challenge even now, some 40 years later. Even without industry resistance, hybrids and electrics could only have ever been concept cars in 1982. Heck, my parents were only able to get crappy NiCad rechargeable batteries for my Game Boy and the TV remote in 1989. The way I read this film, it's just that the gasoline engine was a really reliable, adaptable and tenacious standard engine design for its time.
(I'm looking in from outside the US.) Hah! @ 17:00 - "I've survived against efforts to replace me". That's a laugh. Automotive corps continually lobby for subsidies, bailouts, and to get governments to implement laws to squash competition. Yeah, they "survived". I'd proffer that they connived to survive. As an engineer, this is a good primer for people. As somebody who's old enough & hopefully a tad wiser, I wonder if this was part of the ongoing O&G & automotive propaganda I've witnessed since the 1960's. What's sad is I'm witnessing legacy auto (GM, Ford Stelantis) pushing their agenda with Biden and trying to pull every playbook trick to shut Tesla down. The one (made in America) company that US citizens should be proud of & boast about. They are replacing ICE because we have to, & they have a mission to transition the world to a sustainable transport model. I can go with that.
Keep the old school films coming, Fran!
The talking self-aware engine is my favorite kind of engine. Great stuff, Fran.
This old stuff takes you away back in time, thanks Fran, you've given me quite a few goodies you wouldn't believe
Old educational films can be incredibly informative. I learned electronics from army training films from the 40's and 50's. Outdated but very informative
And here we are, nearly 40 years later, and Mr. ICE still hasn't been completely replaced!
While dated, still makes you appreciate the engineering, building upon the foundation of many previous decades. Still useful to illustrate the basic principles of the internal combustion engine for newcomers or the non technically inclined. And I love the nostalgia of it, especially the views of those 1970s and 1980s cars on a freeway somewhere. Ooh, 8.1:1 compression. Such power being made. lol.
As a teenager I was taught the four cycles of an engine. Suck, Sqeeze, Bang, Blow. :)
@@chuckthebull LOL.
PWM controlled internal combustion engine with some complex feedback circuitry? Hmmmm... :)
It's interesting to see how engines have evolved over the course of a few decades, but that also means they're way harder to repair. Plus with the oil reserves being used up, something might finally have to replace them. Electric motors are an obvious choice, but energy storage is a problem that still needs to be solved.
I like how the engine's principle of operation is explained - really simple and clear :)
JCB have developed hydrogen power using their long experience with ic engines and have installed them in some of their machines, they use mostly existing technology. This looks very promising particularly as the only remaining problem is green hydrogen production and distribution but they are pretty well solved so watch this space, there is lots of life in the old ic engine yet.
E-cars are not green. They consume lots of power, rare earth materials in manufacture. So much so I have seen estimates that they only become less polluting of co² than ic motors at 75k miles then factor in a battery change!
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
@@lesmaybury793 It's not a great solution, it has a massive NOx problem. On top of that is that hydrogen production is not very efficient, not a big problem with a efficient fuel cell but if you burn in a combustion engine (like JCB) with an efficiency of far less than 50% the overal performance becomes very low.
So hydrogen in conventional engines has no future, still pollution the surroundings and very low performance. Have a look what they do in the mining industry, they went electric decades ago.
@@jhoughjr1 All cars only consume power. Only the storage medium is different. ICE's use fuel stored in a gas tank. EV's use electrons stored in a battery. And most EV's can drive 400+km on a single charge so the 'energy storage problem' of Keri does not exist. Only the price still needs to drop a little.
@17:05 _"...I've survived against everiest to replace me...."_
Finally the end has come.....no chance.
Nice little strip.
2:00 The scoring on the bore! YOW
Wow thus was great. I went to college for automotive technology and I was super interesting to see what systems got replaced and what systems they mentioned that are still around in even the newest cars. Super cool! Fran, you're the best for making sure these films are available for anyone online. The internet is the world's repository of knowledge, but having excellent curators and archivists like you is vital to make it worth it!
It's great these old films are given a second chance....
Man, this is awesome. I know combustion engines, but this is the perfect refresher.
Please keep that telecine running! So many random good things are falling out of it recently.
Amazing!!! I love how complicated this is and how everything is this super tight, densely compacted mechanical system.
When I hear that distorted musical open, I am taken back to the days when the projector cart would be wheeled in, the screen pulled down, the lights shut off, and we students would most likely have no responsibilities until the bell rang at the end of class.
Thanks for posting all these!😊👍
I dug it, and my wife dug it, and I learned something, as ever here. Thank you!!!
Wow
I remember this they showed this to us in auto shop first day
Wow! There was some major scoring in the cylinder wall on that cutaway engine at the beginning…..
I love how they would anthropomorphize the thing they are explaining. Reader’s Digest used to do that with articles like “I am Joe’s Pancreas”. But then you get lines like, “Underneath a removable pan holds the oil I need for lubrication.”
Loving all these old films Fran! :)
Wonderful film thanks.
Watched it, thank you. Refreshed it to see what the views were, and we are now at 94 views, and 110 thumbs up.
Congrats at breaking UA-cam!
Thanks, Fran. It's interesting both how little and how much the ICE has changed in 40 years.
As Lou Reed once pronounced. 'I'm waiting for my Fran'. Have a splendid day folks.
Better gas mileage?
My 2007 Chevy Aveo get 23 MPG on its best day!
Back in 1989 my 84 Ford Escort got 30+ MPG.
I know, most cars get a lot better mileage nowadays mine is just a fluke.
I was blessed & actually got to meet and speak with an engineer around 1992. He brought out some blueprints (3 Giant pages) for me then roll them out on my hood to look at. I told Him that I was learning how to read blueprints & he thought I would be interested in looking at these.
This stuff was rocket science & Waaaay Beyond what I was learning!
I asked him what in the world is this?
He told me that it was" in a since, a type of "Carburetor" that got 75 miles per gallon with V8 engines."
I said what?😲
Why the hell aren't we using them?
He proceeded to tell me that the oil companies bought the rights to These Blueprints and it could not be manufactured.
So help me God, this is a true story!
Now, ...was this "retired" engineer who owned an auto parts store, Who was very eccentric. His part store was packed to the ceiling with rarest car parts you could find. Literally packed to the ceiling with, only an 18 inch wide path to walk through the store. He had 3 of the rarest 426 Hemi's at his house in crates, among other things & He strangely had 3 pages of intensely complicated blueprints.
Was he telling me the truth, just because I told him I was learning how to read blueprints, He wanted me to see his 3 pages of blueprints? Or,... it was all for show???
You tell me!
Meanwhile in Japan and Europe...
3 cylinder engines, 10+ cylinder engines, and they were all spinning at more than 4800RPM(80*60) with more than 2 valves per cylinder and doing it more efficiently... lol
The US had built plenty of performance engines that would exceed 4800rpm and 4v engines as well. The biggest reason we didn't get a lot of the performance engines manufactured elsewhere in the world during that time is that they couldn't meet US emissions standards or, if they did, we got reduced power compared to their domestic ratings. The late 70s and early 80s were the "dark ages" of engines as power had taken a nose-dive from the 60s as the focus shifted to emissions reductions. Catalytic converters were horribly inefficient and restrictive, the smog pumps took additional engine power to pump air into the exhaust stream, compression ratios dropped to reduce NOx, etc. etc. But it was effective and started the development of materials for the much better systems to come later. I'm not saying these engines were great by any means, but there's a reason they were crap. The vast majority of the R&D budget was going into reducing emissions over anything else. That's also why you see a lot of engine platforms developed around the 1950s and 1960s staying in production through the 1980s!
As an example - all production vehicles in the US from 1968 onwards had to reduce hydrocarbons in the exhaust by 72%, CO by 56% and have zero crankcase emissions as compared to 1963 numbers. This was a pretty mild first step but is where the "afterburner" smog pumps came into play and PCV system. Japan didn't adopt such controls until 1976 by which time the US had ratcheted the requirements up even more. I'd say it payed off significantly in the end...especially with the computer controls we have now. If you ever see a car with an LEV, ULEV, etc sticker on the window, that means it's like a 50% or greater reduction in emissions compared to a new vehicle in 2003. SULEV is 90%!!
Sorry...nerded out there on engines. It's really a fascinating story of development. From the advent of the internal combustion engine to increased smoothness (crazy examples like the 1930s Cadillac v16s) to power to emissions reduction to economy...the evolution of the gasoline internal combustion engine is fascinating and it's still not over!
I don't see your point. Spitting out random numbers and saying lol after it.
@@Engineer9736 The Japanese and Europeans were making production engines that absolutely embarrassed what the big three could do. Remember how GM swore you needed a catalytic converter to make their lumps of cast iron pass emissions, and Honda shamed them with nothing but a redesign of the cylinder head. The Japanese had 100HP 1.3L 4cyl N/A engines without turbos, or high octane fuel and full emissions gear.
One day we will remissness at an equivalent "The Electric Engine" old educational film as we travel in our autonomous ion propulsion displacement pods.
There was a film about the wankel engine that I saw a few years back that was kinda similar to this. Do you by any chance happen to have that?
Trippy as hell!
Love the music!
Love your lab Fran
Big fan
Very nice video !
Just great...!! 👍
Sooo good!
This actually has a really good diagram of carbs
I don't know where you get the 16mm films but they are like Gold !
You actually are still shown classic videos like this during NATEF/ASE training for the fundamentals.
I am honestly surprised just how old computer-controlled direct injection systems are and just how much of the engine the computer could control even back then.
Nowadays we have computers controlling every aspect, even the starter motor, to get the most efficiency possible. And a viable alternative to the ICE is emerging with the electric car, but the hybrid system using a 3-cylinder engine to power a generator for recharging the batteries is a popular stepping stone as it gets the milage of a conventional engine with the instant torque delivery of an electric motor.
I am a bit impressed by the fact that they mentioned direct fuel injection, but nothing about having more than two valves per cylinder
LMFAO i wasnt expectin ed the car to narrate :P
looks like many here want to go from the ox cart to the Jetsons space car without the evolution it takes to get from one to the other. I guess Fran you better get busy making that transporter from StarTrek.
Enjoyed the movie and can apply the knowledge to help fix my lawnmower, etc. Quest for knowledge. :-) I took automotive in high school and it is helping all along. Can even change tires and a host of other repairs. Do not have to wait on the side of the road for CAA or AAA... hehehe... Know how to drive standard gearing. LOL
I'm pretty shoure I watch this one in 8th grade shop class 1987
Was 1982 that long ago ?
The animation demonstration is a Hemi 🇺🇸👍😎👍🇺🇸
Come back, zinc!
The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them?
I actually remember this film from 3rd grade.
8:1 compression...definitely from 1982 when we were trying to figure out emissions!
Ye 11 is now a bit on the low end
15:13 did carbon monoxide just flip me off??
Yes, it did. Unburned HCs couldn't get its finger up apparently.
I'm pretty sure I watched this film in high school auto shop class...
Who is the lady at 0:16??
Visionary thing to archive and especially digitize, these 16mm old industry HR and ad agency productions that rank high in cultural influence, particularly in speed of change and expanse of consumption. Testosterone and Progesterone/Estrogen shaken, not stirred...
The primary motivator of the transverse mounted front wheel drive power plant is COST. It is far cheaper to make and assemble the single front wheel drive unit than the rear wheel drive system.
I kind of wonder why they didn't all just swap the trunk and engine (aside from a few notable exceptions)
@@TheGreatAtario The rear engine dive has other problems. That's why Porsches are harder to drive than other cars. Look up over and under steer.
Let's not forget that GM did have a dalliance with a rear engine vehicle. The Sporty Corvair. "Unsafe At Any Speed". While the swing arm rear axle was dropped for the '65 model, the damage was already done to the cars' reputation. Furthermore, it was found that to get the swing arm axle to misbehave, you really had to work at the effort. Too little, too late.
@@SarahRWilson Cost was the primary motivator. The performance gains were just a fortunate happen stance.
WE LOVE YOU FRAN THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK IN MAKING THESE AVAILABLE FOR US TO WATCH!! YOUR SO GREAT!!
Heavy accent for an industrial film. Unusual.
2:17 "each piston goes up and down as 80 times per second" that would give only 80 rpm? ... or am I missing something?
amtsgedicht; You are missing something. There are 60 seconds in a minute so in 1 minute the piston will go up and down 60 X 80 = 4,800 times or 4800 RPM. Most 4 cylinder engines today will run at that speed safely, or even up to 6000 to 7000 RPM but they give best lifetime and fuel economy at around 2000 to 3000 RPM.
This says so much about GM and the early 1980’s. There’s the stilted 1950’s-60’s style of corporate messaging intersected with the nadir of the Marlboro man masculinity rise in the Reagan era.
I feel like I could write an essay on the character of this video. It's an omnipotent being comprised of all 4 stroke gasoline engines? LMAO. I hear cocaine was HUGE in the 80's!
Film: 300,000 per second!
Me: wait...
Me:
Me: 1/3 MHz??? Oh, the past! :-P
RIP Olds and Pontiac. We hardly knew ye (or we knew ye too well, depends on the model.)
I seem to recall Delco ended up being the world's highest volume computer manufacturer in the 80s, which makes sense since GM dropped an ECU into every single one of its cars from 1981, to do mixture control (for oxygen sensor controlled carburetion) or full fuel injection. GM was a big ship in those days. Didn't turn very fast, but once they decided to do something, best not stand in the way.
American engines were pretty leisurely beasts, and the smaller engine attempts were often dreadful (the SOHC, metric PInto engine being a notable counterexample) but they had a lot of the small maintenance improvements the Europeans lacked. I had a 1977 VW Golf/Rabbit which had solid lifters instead of hydraulic, a cork valve cover gasket instead of anything else, and points instead of electronic ignition, which were all laughably obsolete, especially in a new model. But unlike the Bosch FI systems and the licensed Denso copies, by the mid 80s Ford and GM engine computers had onboard diagnostics, and the GM setup was comprehensive enough to be a major basis for the OBD2 standard. Designed to be repairable, unlike, say, any L-Jetronic equipped car, which never, ever idled right, because every single possible fault resulted in idle problems but no trouble calls.
It took me moving to Detroit, and a number of years, to appreciate the domestics at all. But man, an American car would run like garbage for longer than a European car would run at all, when this film came out.
Interesting this was on film! I have a GM LaserDisc from 2 years earlier, when Computer Command Control was just being introduced. The view of the emissions and safety regulations being imposed wasn't as rosy in this presentation: watch?v=4ecKn7OmyNo
@1:53 That's what she said! LOL
👍
Fascinating old film, Fran thanks.
The ICE is (was) pretty amazing…. Too bad about greenhouse gases and global warming!
Piston goes eighty times a second?
I am jack’s closed cylinder
These basic principles apply to the most sophisticated modern engine of today
light cars wouldn't have any traction at all if engine not over the driving wheels.
We have 4 haters.
Maybe it has something to do with the internal combustion engine?😂
Turbans? What the hell?
Turbines
My engine speaks japanese. I can't understand it.
なに? わかりません 英語 お願いします! :P
Does anyone here speak Japanese?
@@rsc9520 trebor trouble's engine does!
I'm going to have to give your description a dislike. Do you really think we we could have had viable hybrid or electric cars in 1982? Come the @#$% on, they're a challenge even now, some 40 years later. Even without industry resistance, hybrids and electrics could only have ever been concept cars in 1982. Heck, my parents were only able to get crappy NiCad rechargeable batteries for my Game Boy and the TV remote in 1989.
The way I read this film, it's just that the gasoline engine was a really reliable, adaptable and tenacious standard engine design for its time.
(I'm looking in from outside the US.)
Hah! @ 17:00 - "I've survived against efforts to replace me". That's a laugh. Automotive corps continually lobby for subsidies, bailouts, and to get governments to implement laws to squash competition. Yeah, they "survived". I'd proffer that they connived to survive.
As an engineer, this is a good primer for people. As somebody who's old enough & hopefully a tad wiser, I wonder if this was part of the ongoing O&G & automotive propaganda I've witnessed since the 1960's.
What's sad is I'm witnessing legacy auto (GM, Ford Stelantis) pushing their agenda with Biden and trying to pull every playbook trick to shut Tesla down. The one (made in America) company that US citizens should be proud of & boast about. They are replacing ICE because we have to, & they have a mission to transition the world to a sustainable transport model. I can go with that.
@@jhoughjr1 Yup. Shameless, ain't I?
Second
Sorry talking engine... no matter what you try to do, or WHAT you say in this propaganda film, you are STILL spewing carbon into the atmosphere.
Not to mention various species of nitrogen oxide.
What a relief we’re finally getting rid of this people destroying technology.
Feel like pure sh1t just want them gone. Electric cars too.
Why do they call it gasoline when they run on Petrol.