Auruauto
Auruauto on auto, mille jõuallikaks on aurumootor.
Auruauto kiirusrekord pärineb 2009. aasta 25. augustist, kui brittide British Steam Car Challenge purustas alates 1906. aastast püsinud Stanley auruauto poolt püstitatud rekordi ja saavutas Mojave kõrbes Californias kiiruseks 225,055 km/h.[1][2]
Viited
[muuda | muuda lähteteksti]- ↑ "The British Steam Car Challenge". Steamcar.co.uk. 18.08.1985. Vaadatud 24.12.2013.
- ↑ "UK team breaks steam car record". BBC News Online. 25.08.2009. Vaadatud 24.12.2013.
Välislingid
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- Hybrid-Vehicle.org: The Steamers
- The Steam Car Club of Great Britain
- Technical website about how steam cars operate
- The Steam Automobile Club of America
- Stanley Register Online, a worldwide register of existing Stanley steam cars.
- The British Steam Car Challenge (an ongoing project started in 1999 dedicated to breaking the land speed record for a steam-powered vehicle).
- Overview on an attempt to break the existing 101 year old Steam car world land speed record
- One day Steam Car conversion, where two teams in the UK TV series Scrapheap Challenge (Junkyard Wars in the US) converted junk cars into coal-fired steam cars.
- Steam 101