Vehicle

Vehicles are devices that are designed or used to transport people or cargo from one point to another. Vehicles span a variety of categories, including cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, and trains.

Pre-War
Before the Great War, vehicles used fuel sources such as steam, electricity, batteries, fusion, and gasoline. The Museum of Technology featured an exhibit on the history of ground transportation, sponsored by the Chryslus Corporation. The exhibit including information on the original steam-powered car and development of the internal combustion engine. It also described the rise of micro-sized nuclear power and allowed visitors to walk through a two story mock fusion engine.

Post-War
After the war, aircraft known as vertibirds were used by various post-War factions including the Enclave, New California Republic, and Brotherhood of Steel. An airship called the Prydwen was built and utilized by the Brotherhood which served as a docking station for vertibirds.

The NCR utilizes locomotives in the New Vegas area for transporting construction materials. They also utilize a monorail for moving troops to and from the New Vegas Strip. The Nuka-Express is a monorail that travels to and from Nuka-World.

The Enclave used an oil tanker, the PMV Valdez, to go back and forth from their oil rig. The Boomers in the Mojave Wasteland wish to recover a pre-War B-29 bomber from the bottom of Lake Mead. The Bright Brotherhood attempts to repair REPCONN rockets in order to go on a "Great Journey" to the "Far Beyond."

A wide variety of wrecked vehicles can be found throughout the wastelands, utilized for building materials and fortifications. A few functional automobiles exist in the former state of California such as steam trucks and a car known as a Highwayman. In Appalachia, in the immediate aftermath of the war, vehicles were still used by survivors, such as a raider gang based in the abandoned Bog Town that utilized trucks during their raids. Members of the Free Radicals attempted to repair pre-War vehicles but only automated vehicles such as cargobots and vertibots are operational.