The Unoffial 2056 Vehicle Guide

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Originally Posted by jimmylogan

If you need a rational then you could say that for the Gauss Gun to be able to fire every second that you need something with a continuous amp/voltage not something that fluctuates like an alternator does.

And before car engines had alternators, they had GENERATORS. (See link
provided earlier.)

The fact is: The clown who wrote that rule had no more idea of how a car
works than I have of intelligent life forms in the Andromeda Galaxy. It was
his idiocy, in part, which helped kill the game -- nothing says "stay away"
to gamers like rules-writers whose calls can be disproved with thirty seconds'
Web research....

(For me: Each gallon of gas provides 50 PU. Don't laugh -- most players take
only the minimum fuel available, and smoke through their supply very fast.)