Nuclear powered car
In 1965, Soviet scientists released the Volga Atom car with an atomic engine with a capacity of 320 horsepower (a lot for that time). The motor weighed 500 kilograms, so there were 4 wheels in front.
Initially the car could not be refueled yet the Volga Atom traveled 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) on a single engine.
Soviet scientists later created an engine with gas-phase fuel in the form of uranium hexafluoride instead of solid uranium, and the new version of the car had a range of 40 thousand kilometers (24,854 miles) per tank of uranium hexafluoride.
When Khrushchev retired, the machines were dismantled, and research in this area ceased.
