Lorean is extremely cold, and frost forms from atmospheric moisture all over the car's body. In the first film, the car has starter problems and has a hard time restarting once stopped, much to Marty's repeated frustration. Fusion generator that uses garbage as fuel. Fusion unit provides the required power for the time machine, the De. Lorean is still powered by an internal combustion engine for propulsion.
The fuel line is damaged during Marty's trip to 1. Back to the Future Part III; after he and Doc patch it, they attempt to use whiskey as a replacement fuel since commercial gasoline is not yet available. The test fails, destroying the car's fuel injection manifold and leaving it unable to travel under its own power. Doc and Marty consider options to reach the required 8. For the extra power needed to push the De. Lorean up to speed, Doc adds his own version of .
Although rarely used, the . Doc originally conceived the idea for the flux capacitor on November 5, 1. Fusion Home Energy Reactor.
The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor is the name of a power source used by the De. Loreantime machine in the Back to the Future trilogy. It can be seen for the first time at the end of Back to the Future when . It is a parody of Mr. Coffee machines, which were very popular at the time of filming. Fusion Home Energy Reactor converts household waste to power for the time machine's flux capacitor and time circuits using nuclear fusion, presumably cold fusion.
In the film, Mr. Fusion allows the De. Lorean time machine to generate the required 1. The energy produced by Mr. Fusion replaces plutonium as the primary power source of the De.
Lorean's time travel, allowing the characters to bypass the arduous power- generation requirements upon which the plot of the first film hinges. The plutonium fission reactor was most likely left installed underneath Mr. Fusion as a backup power source.
Fusion can provide enough power to the flux capacitor but is not used to power up the De. Lorean itself, which makes use of an ordinary gasoline combustion engine to reach the 8. Doc and Marty find themselves stuck in 1. De. Lorean out of gas (due to a fuel leak). The vehicle's hover system is powered by Mr.
Fusion and is capable of bringing the De. Lorean up to the required 8. However, the flight systems were destroyed as a result of a lightning strike, leaving Marty to rely on the original combustion engine, which in turn was disabled. Fictional timeline. Fusion Home Energy Reactor.
While there, the De. Lorean is stolen by Biff who then travels back to November 1. Once Biff returns to 2.
Doc's knowledge, the duo return to 1. Hill Valley is ruled by Biff that Doc described as 1. A (alternate 1. 98. The De. Lorean then travels back to 1. According to writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, the lightning causes the De.
Lorean to spin at 8. Doc and Marty recover the De. Lorean from the mine in 1. Doc builds a vacuum tube circuit assembly to replace the destroyed microchip circuitry and restore the vehicle's time travel capabilities. The tires have disintegrated in storage, so Doc replaces them with whitewalls.
The gasoline engine is still functional, but the flying circuits are not. In a letter Doc wrote to Marty in 1. Doc states he is happy in his new life there and requests that Marty not attempt to retrieve him, but instead to return to 1. De. Lorean, believing that it has brought them and the world nothing but disaster. However, Marty and the Doc of 1. Doc's way when he is murdered by Biff's grandfather, Buford . He and Doc patch it and attempt to use whiskey as a replacement fuel, since commercial gasoline is not yet available; the test fails, destroying the fuel injection and ignition systems and leaving the car unable to travel under its own power.
Its final trip, from 1. Doc's version of . Fusion unit provides the power required to activate the flux capacitor and make the jump through time. He uses the old tires and a wooden support to cushion the locomotive's . Since each of the three .
Marty is able to bail out of the car seconds before the train strikes. Later the Time Train, which is Doc's second time machine, appeared in the same spot where the De.
Lorean was destroyed. Other elements. The vanity license plate used in the film reads .
Fusion and the hover conversion (Doc either rebuilds the one destroyed at the end of Part III or he simply builds a new one). He also seemingly adds the capability to travel through space in addition to time (i. TARDIS from Doctor Who. The cartoon De. Lorean time machine has many add- ons, including a back seat in normal two- door mode, the ability to transform into a four- door, a pop- out covered wagon top, a blimp, a rear video screen, and a voice activated time input. Back to the Future: The Game features a chronal duplicate of the original De.
Lorean, which Doc Brown recovered from the timestream after the destruction of the original. This De. Lorean is created at the end of Back to the Future Part II, when the original time machine was struck by lightning: while the De. Lorean itself is sent to 1. Doc retrieves it with the Hover Train.
He later traveled to 1. De. Lorean to 1. 98. Marty to rescue him from 1. This duplicate De. Lorean is effectively the same as the Part II car, including the occasional glitches in the time controls (mostly affecting the last time departed time display), but with a new automatic retrieval feature that automatically brings the De. Lorean to a set time and location of Doc's choosing every time Doc Brown doesn't return to the car in a fixed amount of time. As such, the chronal circuits of the duplicate De.
Lorean become even more glitchy, accumulating errors as severe as the interval of time traveled, with increasing damage with every attempt: as such, Citizen Brown, the Alternate Doc, has to install a diagnostic console made of materials available in 1. This De. Lorean is then stolen by Edna Strickland, one of the game's main villains. The more adept Doc Brown returns in another duplicate De.
Lorean due to earlier events in the game, although it is unknown where it came from. Then Officer Danny Parker nearly arrests Marty and Doc for allegedly having the car that Edna got away in. After they explain to him that there is more than one De. Lorean, Marty explains that the other De. Lorean had malfunctioning time circuits.