Vents on the back heat the vehicle after time travel.Ī few technical glitches with the DeLorean hinder time travel for its users.

After the trip, the exterior of the DeLorean is extremely cold, and frost forms from atmospheric moisture all over the car's body.

In the destination time, immediately before the car's arrival, three large and loud flashes occur at the point from which the car emerges from its time travel. Observers outside the vehicle see an implosion of plasma as the vehicle disappears, leaving behind a trail of fire aligned with the DeLorean's tires (which can also appear in midair), while occupants within the vehicle see a quick flash of light and instantaneously arrive at the target time in the same spatial location (relative to the Earth) as when it departed. The actual speedometer on the production DeLorean's dashboard only goes up to 88 mph, and the car itself was criticized for being underpowered by a V6 engine. Various proposals have been brought forth in the past by fans of the movie franchise for why the car has to be moving at 88 mph to achieve temporal displacement, but actually the production crew chose the velocity simply because they liked how it looked on the speedometer, modified for the movie. A digital speedometer is attached to the dashboard so that the operator can accurately gauge the car's speed.

Surrounded by an electrical current similar to a Tesla coil, the whole car vanishes in a flash of white/blue light seconds later, leaving a pair of fiery tire tracks. As it accelerates, several coils around the body glow blue/white while a burst of light appears in front of it. After entering a target date with the keypad inside the DeLorean, the operator accelerates the car to 88 miles per hour (141.6 km/h), which activates the flux capacitor. The operator is seated inside the DeLorean (except the first time, when the remote control is used), and turns on the time circuits by turning a handle near the gear lever, activating a unit containing multiple fourteen- and seven-segment displays that show the destination (red), present (green), and last departed (yellow) dates and times. The control of the time machine is the same in all three films.

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