Time Machine (DeLorean)

The DeLorean time machine was Dr. Emmett Brown's most successful invention in the Back to the Future Universe. It was a plutonium-powered time travel machine comprised of a DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that had to reach 88 miles per hour in order to time travel.

A Flux Capacitor was a core component of his time travel machines, stating that "it is what makes time travel possible." Its prototype was a temporal field capacitor able to send objects through time, but only during the lifespan of the device and only forward through time, as sending objects even a few minutes into the past would cause a buildup of flux energy and explode. This problem was solved by the flux capacitor, allowing time travel to the future, as well as the past.

In order to travel through time, the vehicle integrated with the flux capacitor needed to be traveling at 88 miles per hour, and required 1.21 gigawatts of power, originally supplied by a plutonium-powered nuclear fusion reactor. Later more time travel machines were created: the Jules Verne Train, a time parachute, and the second DeLorean time machine.