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Lol history is repeating 😂now it’s electric⚡️
Tonka used to make toy trucks heavily based on the style of the Turbo Titan, I recon
9km per liter is extremely good fuel consumption for a truck. I think you meant to say 0.9 km per liter.
As the last 110 years or so, the future will show the highest and best design for all average driving scenarios is internal combustion piston engines. Gas powered cars have become ridiculously efficient, reliable, clean, and affordable and turbo diesels are even more efficient effortlessly moving goods on land and sea, and are reliable on a scale ev scam junk will never realize.
Is some defective bot selecting the clips to be inserted? Off-highway dump truck, farm tractor, aircraft piston engine…
The gas turbine at ford was my fathers project, he told about everyone lining up in dearborn to drive the turbine truck.
I could use one of these in the windy corner of my yard
100 foot trucks pulling 70+ tonnes exist now. Just not in the US I guess?
"Whirlfire" is a tricky word to understand with an English accent.
I am looking forward to seeing the big red ford turbine truck – I think I've read somewhere that it will be in a museum someday.
this is the first time I've ever seen a picture of a GM turbine truck.
the only thing I've ever seen that resembles the bison is a custom truck built on the Toronado frame and used to transport a mock up of a rocket-powered car
Then they gmc came out with 2stroke diesels
I like Allison airplane engine pic for the transmission?
Wait. Someone please tell me that I heard wrong. Did he say 350 pound feet? That is neither respectable or exceptional. There were diesel engines of that era capable of over 1000 pound feet.
I think it's hilarious seeing the stock footage of a camera on some reporter at a fencing match.
Nah, the economics didn’t work. A gas engine then cost under $200. A turbine, requiring very expensive alloys, very expensive machining, and expert mechanics, it cost more than 50 times as much. There was no way that could ever make economic sense. Plus technically a turbine didn't fit. Turbines take like 20 seconds to get up to speed and have a limited number of such cycles. You'd either have to idle the truck at 80% RPM, wasting a lot of fuel, or let it idle down at stop lights, drastically shortening the life of blades and combustors.
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Bit of a script typo at 8:09… 2.15 MPG would be 0.91 kilometres per litre… 9 kilometres per litre is better fuel economy than some family cars.
7:42 that is an Alisson engine, not a gearbox
9km/L of fuel is amazing mileage for something that weighs 77tonne. I think you got your conversion wrong.
Dunno who does your conversions, but they're hilarious. 2.1mpg is less than one km/l
First time I see you being incomplete on a subject. In the US there were also Mack, HI and Freightliner that ran trials and also in Europe: Besides Leyland in the 1970s, Europeans dabbling with turbine power included Magirus-Deutz, MAN, Fiat and Berliet of France. All came to nothing, like I suspect the flurry of hydrogen trucks and busses of today
7:43 not an Allison automatic transmission.
I love the design of concept cars from the 60s and 70s. Thanks largely to Tesla we are now getting some redesigns of staple vehicles. 🎃
I can't wait to see the episode on electric trucks!
The GM Bison looks very similar to a Hot Wheels tractor trailer from the late 60s and early 70s from their Heavy Weights line. They were still 1:64 scale trucks, and in addition to the tractor trailer, there were a few other variations like a tow truck, I think a box van and a couple others.
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"Superhighways"
"More efficient than before"
Something doesn't add up there.
vsauce? lol
reminds me of the big "car" in an episode of speed racer
In the fifties my father in law worked in Seattle for a logger as a mechanic 3 it the trucks were GMC with two huge V6 engines end to end with a coupler in the middle he said nothing could keep up with it but it got 2 miles to the gallon the engines were around 550 CID each
What does "gas powered" even mean?
Gas turbines run on kerosene or diesel – neither are "gas" in the correct sense or in the american abbreviation for gasoline
3:55 When they refer to a "tandem drive tractor" they are not referring to a agricultural machine
7:41 Is this the Allison transmission ?? Maybe it is the trannie on this big engine? Although the engine doesn't look like a turbine
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The non-conventional steering wheel of the Chevy Titan III may seem odd to those who have only driven passenger cars. I haven't driven long-haul trucks but agriculture equipment and sometimes you have to spin the steering wheel 4-5 times to get the wheel where you want them, and having a spinner on the steering wheel is great. Having a full-sized steering wheel is great if you lose power steering but generally having a smaller wheel with a spinner would be ideal.
The photo you showed for big reds Allison transmission was a V12 airplane engine.
At least it was an Allison though!
The Mack Turbine test truck from the late 70s I believe is still running and can be seen at the Mack Trucks Historical Museum in Allentown, PA
nice vid but whoever applied all the stock footage of articulated dump trucks, tractors and allison engine incorrectly tarnished the experience tbh.
I was around from 1950 on and never realized turbine semi tractors existed!
No more likes or dislikes? What is happening
interesting subject if it were more understandable by using a spokesman without the arrogant and condescending British accent with an up and down volume in the voice.
I believe the fate of the turbo titan III's fate is known but there's still speculation on it due to the hands exchanging it have become murky. Someone did buy it but no one can track it cause the guy sold it and it's been lost due to not having a serviceable title.