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。

There are a few gas- powered cars here, but the real focus is electric.

这里有一些燃油汽车，但真正的重点是电动汽车。

But for all the talk that batter powered cars are our future, why aren't we driving them?

所有说法都预示不远的未来会是电动汽车, 但为什么我们还不能驾驶呢?

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。

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？

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。

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。

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。

Many people at this week's Frankfurt Motor Show were asking not only how the cars of the future will be powered, but who or what will drive them.

在这周的Frankfurt Motor展览会上，许多顾客并不仅仅询问未来汽车的动力如何，也开始关心由什么来操纵它们。

They're less polluted to drive than gas powered cars and they offer more design options without a big engine and transmission getting in the way but they're more expensive.

与汽油驱动的汽车相比，它们污染更小，而且它们在设计上拥有更多选择的余地，没有了发动机和变速器，使用更加便捷，但是它们售价更高。

EVs are quieter and require less maintenance, but they're more expensive to buy and their battery packs are expensive to replace, while it's far less likely you'd replace the engine of a gas powered car.

电动汽车更安静，需要的维护也更少，但它们的购买成本更高，电池包的更换成本也更高，而替换燃油汽车发动机的可能性却很小。

While the race was won by a gasoline powered car due to the severe weather conditions favoring the internal combustion engine, electrobats performance was lauded and indeed won races and subsequent more city suited conditions.

虽然由于恶劣的天气条件有利于内燃机， 汽油动力汽车赢得了比赛，但电动蝙蝠的性能受到称赞， 并且确实赢得了比赛和随后更适合城市的条件。