No! The deciding factor is what is used to drive the wheels of the
vehicle, Would you classify the Vesco Turbinator as gasolin/jet
fueled powered or as a turbine no matter what the fuel that was used.
Wes
On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:04 PM, drmayf wrote:
> Let me add some more fuel to the discussion. Let's consider steam.
> If the analogy between steam and electric or hydrogen is permitted
> then a steam powered vehicle should be listed as what ever was used
> to generate the steam, steam being the equivalent of electrons.
> Then the record for the steam car would be listed as a fuel car and
> classified somehow in that classification. Steam, as are electrons,
> the media which powers the final drive. So if a steam car is a
> "steam car" then both the buckeye bullet and the Ford Fusion should
> be reclassified as electric cars since final drive power was
> electricity. What if the steam car had used hydrogen to fuel th
> eburnes that made the steam? Would i thave been classified as a
> hydrogen fuel car? Can't have it both ways, I am thinking..
>
> mayf
> drmayf wrote:
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