By the turn of the 20th century, nearly all attempts at a steam-powered car were abandoned in favor of fuel-oil-powered vehicles. Thus ended the near-fruitless drive to create a heat-engine-driven ...

The steam-powered car is considered an old-fashioned relic in today's age, but in his latest video showing off his 1925 Doble E-20, Jay Leno demonstrates that at its best, steam provided a ...

It was not a given that petrol-powered cars would come to dominate the world. In fact, back in 1900, just 22% of cars ...

Curt Brohard and his brother Allan took 20 years to restore a rare surviving 1906 Stanley steam-powered car. The year this car was built, a Stanley steamer set the world’s land-speed record of ...

Tuning and racing these cars is popular in many parts of the ... but we’d love to see a competition series using steam powered racers. We don’t see a whole lot of steam hacks around here ...

WMU History Professor Emeritus Dale Porter was interviewed by two reporters for the BBC on the topic of Sir Goldworthy Gurney, an amateur British scientist who developed the first steam-powered car ...

It even had key advantages over gasoline- and steam-powered cars in the early 1900s. Yes, that's right — car's once ran on steam. While the early electric cars were basically horseless carriages ...