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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1973 color film from the United States Environmental Protection Agency offers a glimpse of cutting-edge, experimental automobile concepts at the First Symposium on Lower Power Systems Development, an EPA conference held at the Marriott Motor of Ann Arbor, Michigan that focused on international efforts to develop cars with high fuel efficiency or alternative fuel sources. A sporty red electric car, the ESB and Exide “Sundancer,” appears alongside a steam-powered bus and other intriguing, ahead-of-their-time creations (TRT: 6:26). Experimental concept cars. An open hood reveals an engine modified with a unique switching device. A General Motors (GM) logo on a small, gas-powered vehicle (0:06). A license plate, “EPA-364.” A Lear Motors “Steamcoach” bus carries the message “Steam is Beautiful.” A lineup of parked experimental vehicles (0:23). An interview with a D
