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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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They probably did not have the acceleration of gasoline power though

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They definitely did, at the time. They exceeded gasoline powered cars in pretty much every metric.

Then, the gasoline powered car got easier to start and operate.

But, yeah, they had plenty of torque. The Doble B did 0 to 60 in like 15 seconds. That's faster than a bunch of 80s cars.

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I did not know that. I learned something today. But I guess they would have to be able to generate a lot of torque to be put into train engines

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The electric starter was what killed the steam car. Until then, gasoline wasn't really all that dominant. Even though the Model T sold millions, steam cars stuck around until the 30s.

Here's another one:

It had huge torque (1,100 ft⋅lbf or 1,500 N⋅m) at zero engine revs, and could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 km/h) in under 8 seconds[

To be fair, that one wasn't made until the 1970s.