For one thing, gas powered cars are more profitable for companies to manufacture.

首先，汽油驱动的汽车对汽车公司和生产商来说效益更大。

We power our cars with gas. They use petrol.

我们把汽油就做" gas" ，他们用" pertol" 。

16. What will be used to power cars in the next few decades?

16. 在未来几十年，什么材料将用于驱动汽车？

Question 16. What will be used to power cars in the next few decades?

问题16. 在接下来的几十年里，将会用什么来驱动汽车？

There wouldn't be any left over to power a car or charge a phone.

不会有任何剩余来为汽车供电或给手机充电。

Speed limiters reduce a car's engine power to keep it from going over the speed limit.

速度限制器减少汽车的引擎动力，以防止它超过速度限制。

Some automakers are looking to another kind of battery to power their cars – solid state batteries.

一些汽车制造商正在寻找另一种电池来为他们的汽车提供动力——固态电池。

Others say the issue is caused by low quality fuel that's used to power cars and trucks.

其他人认为，这个问题是由用于驱动汽车和卡车的低质量燃料造成的。

Internal-combustion engines, which power 499 out of 500 cars on the road today, would have to all but vanish.

内燃机驱动汽车也得消失，如今，在公路上行驶的500辆汽车中，有499辆是由内燃机驱动的。

In the more recent past, a French inventor named Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot, built a steam powered car like contraption around 1769.

在近些时候，一位名叫尼古拉斯·约瑟夫·库格诺的法国发明家在1769年左右制造了一辆像是蒸汽动力汽车的新奇装置。

Will gas still power our cars?

汽油还会为我们的汽车提供动力吗？

It is what gives the car power to move.

它赋予汽车移动的力量。

Curious to know why we don't have water powered cars yet?

想知道为什么我们还没有水动力汽车吗？

This is the start of the supply chain leading all the way from this makeshift mine to your luxury battery powered car.

这是供应链的开始，从这个临时的矿场到你的豪华电池动力汽车。

Steam powered cars offered a potential solution, but they were far from ideal.

蒸汽动力汽车提供了一个潜在的解决方案，但它们远非理想。

So if you could power your car on anything imaginable, what would it be?

因此，如果您可以用任何可以想象的东西为您的汽车提供动力， 那会是什么？

Fifteen ton, two story tall, gasoline powered, car smashing, piloted giant battle robot, it's used and has dents and dings from robot combat.

这是一个重达15吨，高约7米，装有汽油发动机，能把汽车碾碎的可驾驶巨型战斗机器人，显然它是二手的，在机器人大战中已是伤痕累累。

Tom's storage battery became very useful, even though it didn't power cars like Ford's.

汤姆的蓄电池变得非常有用， 尽管它不能像福特那样为汽车提供动力。

This micro algae works by feeding on CO2 and producing an oil which ultimately can power a car.

这种微藻以二氧化碳为食并产生最终可以为汽车提供动力的油。

There are already lots of types of renewable energy that power cars and homes, and none of them smell like this!

已经有很多类型的可再生能源为汽车和家庭提供动力，而且没有一种闻起来像这样！