提起蒸汽机,人们往往联想到浓烟、噪音以及移动缓慢的机器。100多前,蒸汽汽车从道路上消失,自那以后,由于蒸汽技术的落后、低效、高污染以及过于笨重而被内燃机取代。蒸汽机之所以退出历史舞台,首要原因就是由于它的操作简直是个折磨。它需要持续不断的维护,而你也不能简单地坐进去就将它开走——必须先烧一锅汽才行。但这些问题已经成为过去。如今一家名为Enginion的德国公司正在努力让它重现辉煌, Lifting steam engines, people often think of smoke, noise, and slow moving machines. More than 100 years ago, steam cars disappeared from the road. Since then, they have been replaced by internal combustion engines because of the backwardness, inefficiency, high pollution, and heavy weight of steam technology. The primary reason for the withdrawal of the steam engine from the historical stage is that its operation is a torment. It needs constant maintenance, and you can’t just sit in and drive it away—you have to burn a pot of steam first. But these problems have become the past. Now a German company called Enginion is trying hard to make it reproduce.