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The real question here is why Doc couldn't get Gasoline in 1885 considering a process was invented to harvest it/gather it in the 1850s, and by 1892 it was used to power cars. Even if Doc had no knowledge of the process himself, he should have been able to gather the info and process it easier then buying a train, creating a capacitor etc....but.....I am guessing the real reason is that doc didn't know when lightning would strike.

Without that, he needed a way to quickly transfer a large amount of electricity (1.21 gigawatz) to the capacitor and that would not work on a car...or would be way freaking harder (honestly still not that hard you set up a metal rod on top of the car, drive it up to 88 mph, and drive the rod inbetween 2 metal tracks that start off wide and then end up just the distance away as the bulb at the end of the rod.

That bulb connects the car to the capacitor with the electricity, sending it to the destination time you want.

You would still need to make tracks for the car to run on, or a very smooth surface so it can reach 88 mph in a straight line....and even with all that, it honestly might be easier to just use the train.

Also, it would be far more complicated to add to the movie, and wouldn't have the COOL factor of a hoovering train.
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