Sorry for the confusion, for the third one, they would not actually approach it from the angle of wanting to implement easier travel between cities. They may want to try that in the future, but for now they are looking to take what they know about more advanced engines to try and put some money in the bank by selling part/engine designs to manufacturers. The angle would be improvement for improvement's sake, and not tied to a broader goal. Their own world has similar environmental restrictions, so what they know conforms to that, but the engines are far more powerful while still being efficient. They'd work with an engineer to par down what they know to something better then what's on the market now, but not drastically so.
I was sort of assuming there would be competing manufacturers of vehicles, much like today, always claiming to have the better more fuel-efficient engine, so I might be off base with that.
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Sorry for the confusion, for the third one, they would not actually approach it from the angle of wanting to implement easier travel between cities. They may want to try that in the future, but for now they are looking to take what they know about more advanced engines to try and put some money in the bank by selling part/engine designs to manufacturers. The angle would be improvement for improvement's sake, and not tied to a broader goal. Their own world has similar environmental restrictions, so what they know conforms to that, but the engines are far more powerful while still being efficient. They'd work with an engineer to par down what they know to something better then what's on the market now, but not drastically so.
I was sort of assuming there would be competing manufacturers of vehicles, much like today, always claiming to have the better more fuel-efficient engine, so I might be off base with that.