Why GM’s 30-year experiment with turbine engines flamed out

[teamzr1]

Interesting read by GM and some neat prototypes

GM Turbine Designs

 

[Roscobbc]

I suspect that a better application for automotive turbine type engines might be as small standby vehicle mounted generators to fast-charge batteries on electric vehicles.
Perhaps a developed, reduced sound unit like this......although I haven't a clue about likely efficiency.
World's smallest 8-kW generator rocks a deafening microturbine

 

[Nassau65]

George Jetson would love those.