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  • Just connect air drill to tires

  • Switch the tanks with nitrogen and make sure the spark plug still works

    forced induction and combusstion

  • on borad commpreser

  • That is awesome!!

  • @tnguyen318 You'll be excited when you see your first loaf of sliced bread

  • I personally like the self sustaining (self-charging) electric car.

  • @tnguyen318 I personally like the car with the sprocket on the front axle connected by a chain to a sprocket on the rear axle

  • sounds like a real engine lol

  • sounds like the timing needs adjusted in the valves

  • HOW DID I GET HERE?!

  • it sound like a 4 stroke

  • this is amazing i really want to make one. this is the way forwards

  • NO street legal air cars have been sold since the 1900's The pathetic cons being promoted can barely do 40kph with a 10 km range The need a 6kw compressor running for 6 hours to fill up.

    Google any of the following

    e,volution south africa

    vencat 20 miles

    7.22km air car

    catecar

    It's a con aimed at technical illiterates who believe infomercials on TV

  • go to aircaraccess. com  use httrack to copy and study offline.

    Nitai Gaura Haribol

  • Please update. Great video. Great invention.

  • awesome job, guys!

  • for refilling liquid air is the best ....lots of volume

  • IT CAN BE REFILED IN THE SAME TIME OF DRIVING HAVING 2 TANKS TO INTERCHANGE 1) CONTROLLED EXPLOSION AIR TANK 6000PSI WITH METHANE OR HYDROGEN OR 2) A COMPRESSOR DRIVEN BY FRONT WHEELS HOW WAS DONE IN 1970 ON A PROTOTYPE AIR CAR AND THE FRENCH PROTOTYPE AIR CAR. 3)ELECT A/C COMPRESSOR DRIVEN BY INBOARD INVERTER/ BATTERY. DO SOME MORE RESEARCH AND YOU WILL SEE HOW IS DONE. GOOD LUCK FOR THE FUTURE PROJECTS. WORKS GREAT!

  • really cool.

  • This would work better if you would fart into the intake.I mean it sounds like farting already,so you dont have anything to lose.

  • can u refill it with a small pump that runs on solor power.it may take a day to refill it

  • @gonzofann If you have about $10,000 worth of panels controllers batteries compressors etc you could refill it in a day so you can go a couple of miles.

    Whee

    Sorry but that's a complete waste of time, money and energy. Get an electric bike and a much smaller cheaper photovoltaic system  as it's 5 times MORE efficient

  • @fizzguts actually street legal passenger cars that run off of compressed air have been selling in countries in the east for almost 3 years. They can go 70+ mph, travel 125 miles before needing a refill and when they do it costs about $2 and 5 minutes of time. Sounds pretty efficient to me. Do some research.

  • @Brianchse

    Here's the research. NO street legal air cars have been sold since the 1900's The pathetic cons being promoted can barely do 40kph with a 10 km range The need a 6kw compressor running for 6 hours to fill up.

    Google any of the following

    e,volution south africa

    vencat 20 miles

    7.22km air car

    catecar

    It's a con aimed at technical illiterates who believe infomercials on TV

  • @fizzguts I didnt see it on an infomercial for one, i did research it and MDI has been selling these cars in india for 3 years testing them. It does NOT take 6 hours ot fill them up unless u use the onboard compressor. It only takes 5 minutes at a filling station. You own stock in an oil company by any chance?

  • @Brianchse "MDI has been selling these cars in india for 3 years testing them"

    Nope emailed TATA & they are not interesting in these pieces of crap. So where is your link?

    "It only takes 5 minutes at a filling station."

    And how long does it take to refill the BANK OF PREFILLED AIR BOTTLES at a filling station? about 6 hours if you have a 6kw 4000 psi compressor.

    Any further statements I can shred?

    You own stock in MDI by any chance? A LOT of investors want to unload their worthless paper

  • @fizzguts Your statements dont make sense? Im not sure how you say it takes 6 hours to fill the tanks on the car? Who cares how long it takes to fill the high pressure tanks at the filling station they are huge! it takes 5 mins to fill the CARS tanks at a filling station. I dont own stock in MDI, but seeing as oil is a finite resource its probably not a bad investment for the long term. I notice you didnt answer my question about owning stock in oil? i am betting you do.

  • @fizzguts Its just like people to call something crap when the technology is being developed. Great attitude to have, yeah lets not try and pursue alternative ways of personal transportation, who cares right? Do you think when the combustion engine was being developed people acted any different then you are now? Nope they said same kind of stuff, luckily they continued to develop the technology despite people like you.

  • @Brianchse Air powered vehicles predate the IC engine Google the museum of retro tech.

    By about 1908 the air vehicle was dead except in specialized applications

    If you don't understand the ENERGY to fill the car is 6 hrs of a 6KW compressor no matter how you store the air I can't help you

    i notice you didn't answer my question about stock in MDI You sould like on of the MDI trolls desperate to shut down any criticism

    Google

    berkley air car

    FACTS 5x more energy used than an equivalent EV

  • @fizzguts Actually i DID answer your question on stock in MDI, and i have gathered you cant read. Your full of shit when it comes to high pressure bottles, i am a welder and we use CO2 for the shield gas, those bottles filled to 6000 psi at 125 cubic feet only take 12 minutes to fill. The only reason it takes that long is because it is CO2 and not AIR. Air can be compressed much quicker because there is no ratio standard to hold to. I know air powered technology has been around before

  • @fizzguts (continued) the combustion engine, but its kinda hard to develop technology based on an engine before the engine technology exists. You do know a compressor is just a electric or combustion engine right??

    Yeah and i am going to disregard all evidence to the contrary based on one study, from people who have NEVER been wrong, lol. You do realize those guys are being paid by someone right? You do know how world economics works right? Anyone can be bought.

  • @Brianchse CO2 Bwahahaha which is a pump-able liquid unlike air which CAN NOT be compressed to liquid with out chilling to minus 195 C

    A compressor is at best 50% efficient because of heat rejection set by PV=nRT

    You do know how cons work right? Nothing produced & sold ever. ludicrous claims to impress the technically challenged. Appeals of "green" tech & NEVER EVER any actual independent testing or evidence

    Air engine = steam engine =fully developed. Care to be humiliated again? LOL

  • @fizzguts seriously?? Humiliated? you have obviously mistaken me for someone who who gives a flying fuck what YOU say on the interwebs. I have seen it done in real life, and in much less then 6 frikin hours. So blow it out yer ass, Care to respond again and see if i give a shit?

  • @fizzguts Also if you consider the steam engine as fully developed compressor technology then your an idiot! Ya notice they dont use steam engines any more??? Yeah that means it wasnt fully developed because its obsolete crap by todays standards. If you think that kind of technology is up to par to todays technology you need to put the crack pipe down.

  • @Brianchse Air engine = steam engine =fully developed. Glasses on cretin.Fully developed, skinner stumpf uniflow etc etc but steam engines couldn't compete. It's called physics, you know the stuff you don't understand, so it all changed to steam turbines which are used on 1000's of power plants and suit over 1000hp installations. PS You have never seen a 6kw compressor refill a 180L tanks to 4000psi in less than 6 hours. Care to be humiliated again?

  • @fizzguts LOL why do you keep saying 6kw, who gives a crap about 6kw, it doesnt matter, the facts being you can fill a 124cu ft tank with AIR to 6000 psi in less then 6 hrs. You talk like you know but you dont. You can buy cheap compressors that will fill a 125 cu foot tank with 4500 psi AIR! in 8.5 mins, by cheap i am saying 2000 dollars. So talk all you want your full of shit. Care to talk out your ass again?

  • @Brianchse 124cu ft. You don't understand expanded volume compared to compressed volume! BRILLIANT! You have humiliated yourself once again. Hint p1v1=p2v2 P1 =14.7psi atmospheric pressure V1 = expanded volume P2= 4500psi V2 = compressed volume (you know the ACTUAL TANK SIZE say 180L used in the MDI CON,) I KNEW you didn't have a clue just didn't expect you to demonstrate it SO graphically. 124cubic ft = 3500 liters 3.5 CUBIC METERS BIG dive tank It's called maths The cart has 3 x 12L tanks

  • @fizzguts i dont give a shit what you say, it does NOT take 6 hours to fill the tanks, you can spout all the supposed math equasions you want. Call a company called Airgas, and ask them how long it takes them to fill 10 124 cu ft tanks with 6000 psi, they will tell you about 8-11 mins per tank. You tried to tell me it would take 6 hours to fill the tank on the MDI car, and i say it would only take that long if the tank was as big as the damn car! But they arent, so again your full of shit.

  • @Brianchse

    BWAHAHAHAHA

    Read what I wrote 6hours 6kw

    What horsepower was the compressor Air gas used 10, 20, 30 KW?

    It's roughly 18x124cubic ft to equal 180L at 4500psi

    why would having 10 tanks effect the fill rate for one tank? forgot to mention some vital information?

    It's a bastard you can't understand simple maths isn't it

    Did Air gas explain what CO2 under pressure is you know the one you got completely wrong last time.

    Glad to see I've got you frothing at the mouth again. LOL

  • @fizzguts yeah your just a troll so your comments carry very little weight.

    Like i said before im not sure why you are hung up on 6kw? Who gives a crap about that? Like a filling station is going to limit themselves to some piece of shit compressor that takes 6 hours?? Airgas fills the 124 cu ft tanks in 8-11 mins with AIR not CO2! Call them and ask for yourself. Filling 10 tanks doesnt affect the fill time of one tank, my point was ,not even 10 tanks takes 6 hours. Frothing LOL yeah whatever.

  • @Brianchse "Like I said before I''m not sure why you are hung up on 6kw?"

    That's because you are a nitwit

    "my point was ,not even 10 tanks takes 6 hours"

    But if you filled a 180L tank to 4500psi using a 6kw compressor it would take 6 hours

    Ask Airgas call them and ask them yourself

    BWAHAHAHA!!

  • @fizzguts Just as i suspected, you like to throw out numbers to make the air powered car look like its not even feasible, yet when confronted with reality of what CAN be done you just laugh. All i can say is sure if you want to limit yourself to a 6kw compressor go ahead, i wouldnt. Thats like asking someone to pump up a tractor tire with a bicycle pump. You can do it but its not the best or even most efficient way.

  • @Brianchse So you now agree I am right. 6 hours 6kw 4500psi just like I said at the VERY start. Good boy Next you need to find out just how big a 6kw 4500psi compressor is. Hint 0.745kw= 1hp BWAHAHAHA

  • @fizzguts NO your wrong, if you read back i said i wasnt sure WHY you were regulating it to a 6kw compressor and that i would not do so. Also if .75 kw = 1hp then i am estimating that a 50hp compressor/motor would be sufficiento to do it in 8-11 mins. i have a 160 hp motor sitting on my deck right now, so im not sure why you are converting kw to hp, who gives a crap?? Are you suggesting that something bigger then 6kw is going to be the size of a warehouse? BWAAHAAA [/rolleyes]

  • @fizzguts a 6kw comprssor would have to actually be very small to produce 4500 psi...

  • @shittybill93 Please keep your completely illogical comments to yourself this thread does not need more stupidty

  • @fizzguts your argument falls apart because you still claim to know that it takes 6 hours to fill the tanks to 4500 psi which is total shit, spout all the math you want but all i had to do to debunk your statements was ask someone who does it for a living. You never did answer if you owned stock in oil. I am still betting you do.

    you also seem to think i am humiliated by YOU! LMAO dont flatter yourself, your not that good.

  • its not green what do you think pumps it up electricity... coal burning or nuclear...

    till you never have to fill again nothing ever will be truely green

  • @IRONMAIDENFAN2006 how about a water weal that can turn a compressor or photo cell solar panals and wind

  • Why make that noise if it a air compressed?

  • @zoconino noise of internal combustion engine is mostly due to air pressure waves coming out the engine, and not from the explosion cycle. So if you use a piston air engine, you get similar pressure waves and thus noise

  • how fast was he going 8 mph

  • I guess a muffler is needed.. wake up the neighborhood with one engine.

  • how long does it run on a tank?

  • A lot of the efficency of an air powered car is that it, like an electric car, does not idle at rest, so when you are at a stop light you aren't expending energy, and the average short car trip usually involves a good deal of idling.

  • ur sitting on a fucking bomb lol, if they ruptured you would be so screwed its not even funny..... apparently carbon fiber just splits instead of turns into shrapnell. they have to use carbon fiber in air powered cars otherwise its not legal.

  • Looks like fun! Sounds cool too.

  • looks like a time bomb... wrecking could get nasty... lol.. its a start though.

  • Compressed air cars have been around since the 1880s. Dozens of patents have been granted to inventors of air cars. After about 1930, the term "air engine" was no longer used in engineering textbooks, and the pneumatic locomotives which once proliferated in mining were mostly replaced by electric conveyances which had not been safe or reliable until then.

  • What type of motor are you using ? Would a 2 stroke be better ?

  • @scoobydog411 I say a diesel would be best, cause a Diesel has the highest compression of a normal stock engine. and more compression means more power.

  • how would i calculate how much psi I would have to use in order to move a bike and rider that together weigh 230 pounds at a top speed of ninety five miles per hour for a time period of 3 hours.

  • @icelandman25 Ideal gas law, Google Gast (air motor manufacturer) for power pressure volume curves

    To hard? roughly you'd need a 40ft container full of dive tanks to get close

  • all you naysay ppl should stfu or show us better. There idea and design shows it can be done and with a air motor you can configure it excatly for your needs. smaller gauge pistons for less volume to run at higher psi. larger gauge (Bore) ones for less psi needed for same Ft-# of pressure High one first use of the fuel low one for 2nd use and so on to add range per tank.

  • That is SOOOO cool

  • love the project

    could u please send a link to a site which could help me make a similar engine as part of my final year project in mech. eng. will be very grateful if u can

  • Bonus points for sounding like flatulence.

  • cool azz cart... never seen sumt hing like that

  • Now that's what i call clean emissions xD.

  • lol sounds like a 4t motor with much cm³ and less power. its a good idea how does you build it ?

  • Dive tank, high pressure regulator to drop pressure to 200psi, bolt in compressed air drill with sprocket in the chuck chain drive to rear axle sprocket.

    Now you can go a mile at the speed of a bicycle.

    The off to the dive shop to refill the bottle, that will be $10, kaching.

    Cheaper, similar performance? Just stick a sprocket in a battery drill. lots of clips on Youtube and you can recharge anywhere there is a power point

  • As far as for this technology to be economically viable and truly green friendly, how do propose to refill your air tanks?

  • an electric or mechanical motor would probably be fine.

  • @upcycle but how are you going to get electricty?? by burning coal..

  • @upcycle or you could go to a gas station or something and get it from were you get air for tires

  • @upcycle no per hand....be green :P

  • @Localmode another air motor

  • @Localmode gas station's air pump maybe ?lol

  • @Localmode that in adition to a green power sourse, say wind mill, or eventually fusion to power the pump, it could be totaly zero emission.

  • @Localmode How about a wind-powered air compressor?

  • @Localmode From the sky! It's filled with air! Bwahahahahahaha!

  • @Localmode electric compressor powered by a battery...recharched by an alternator

  • you can hear that the engine isnt air tight. if it were tighter, it would run 10 times better. i learned that using air tools xD

  • It sounds badass ! :P

  • theirs no way it can run 200 miles on compress air ill be surprised if it runs 3 miles on 3 tanks

  • @graffiticrime still its better than petrol. thats the main idea here.

  • @surfskiskate How is it better than petrol? A moments thought along the lines of what if a petrol powered air compressor was used to fill the tanks instantly show what a complete crock the whole idea of air powered vehicles is.

  • @graffiticrime if it is made light enough, it'll probobly run 300 miles judging by the size of the tanks, and assuming they can hold enough pressure.

  • @demonofrazgriz333 Try 5 miles

  • @fizzguts what makes you say that? gasoline is no different than compressed air. they both are simply means of storing energy. in gasoline the power of the sun, millions of years ago, and in compressed air the mechanical energy from the pump. if you pressurize the tank enough, you can store that much energy.

  • @demonofrazgriz333 "if you pressurize the tank enough, you can store that much energy."

    BWAHAHAHAHA! so speaks the person with the knowledge of physics and maths the same as a gold fish.

    Look up Gast air motors, look at the HP per volume of air at a set pressure. Use the ideal gas law to determine run time from a dive tank. Oh!! about 3 minutes for about a 5 hp air motor.

    But of course you won't do that you'd rather credulously believe youtube vidoes

  • @fizzguts are you calling me stupid? A. i'm not talking bout a scuba tank

    b. i'm not basing this on you tube videos, i was just curious to see what others were doing in this area.

    c. i know i don't know exactly how long this can run. but i do know, that a 12x24x36 inch tank at 4500 psi has the energy equivalent of about one liter of petrol.

    d. literally, if you can contain the equivalent amount of energy of about two gallons of gasoline in something that small, you could travel near 300 mi.

  • @demonofrazgriz333

    No I'm telling you you are stupid. Easy mistake

    12x24x36 A RECTANGULAR tank LOL Better to pick a diameter and length for your fantasy

    Std dive tank = 12L MDI's piece of crap uses a 180L tank that means a 6hp motor will run for say 30 minutes on that size tank. 6hp means the MDI POC crawls along at about 20 miles per hour giving it a max range of 10 miles. Surprise under test it actually achieved 5 miles. Wheee! Air cars are horribly inefficient cons aimed at suckers

  • @fizzguts oppous I made mistake in caluations just time consumption by 14.92. 

  • @fizzguts and I found that i made more mistakes. I dive 50 wh by hp and goes seconds instead because time 50wh by 60^2

    and dive by746 and got 241.287 dived by 60 got 4.02 which is I hope is minutes.

  • @fizzguts first of all your math is all wrong. If gas never cool down a litter at 4500 pis would be enough to power a 3.2 hp 80 percent efficient moter for one hour. The problem is that as gas expand it cools greatly reducing efficiently. So expansion piston add efficiency but how ever there is not enough time for gas to warn up. So air engine are around 20 percent efficient 0.8 hp for an hour . I think add heat engine to compress air engine would great improve efficiency greatly.

  • how long does the air last while rideing

  • it my verry due 2 wieght

  • yeah that probly becasue he converted a gas engine........... duhhh

  • Most brilliant thing is, it still sounds like a petrol engine :D!

  • Exelente !

  • If you could figure out a way to fit a turbo on there to push air back into the tank while it is running,

    that would mean a dramatic change in road time and less time filling up the tanks.

    But I am no expert at this.

    Just an Idea of what turbo's do.

  • "But I am no expert at this."

    That's stunningly obvious

  • ya just hook the flywheel up to an old compressor (ones with pistons) so that as the engine is running, it fills up a tank which leads to the intake

  • A turbo operating while the engine is running would create backpresssure and stop the engine, it would be more efficient a sort of KERS, a system that changes valve timing so that when the engine is dragged by the cart (on a slope or when coasting) the air is sucked from the exhaust and pumped back in the bottles

  • it mr. turbo man, u think ur real good exploiting basic turbo sugestions so you can gain thumbs up. pethetic.

  • Nice, but fit some higher gear ratios, and also a freewheel instead of the fixed gear arrangement.

  • haha! looks like a bomb on wheels

  • how do you fill those at home? arnt they like at 800-3k psi?  compressors only do like 150.

  • you can get 3000 psi rated compressers for like $600 or more i think

  • You need a dive tank compressor and that is not cheap.

  • $@%^$!!

    Look down two comments for ucks sake Repeating

    You shell out serious $ for a dive tank compressor Or lug the bottle back and forward to your local dive station and they refill them at approx $5 a shot

  • Great work! Keep it up :)

  • Now, how to recharge the tanks in dynamic braking... :) Fun stuff.

  • check Guy Negre and Angelo Depietro

  • What's the range?

    Top speed?

  • funny I was just dreaming about a compressed air powered bicycle before I woke up 10 min ago lol

  • nice!

  • ok, gramps wants his go cart back

  • It does have great potential if you can figure out how to pressurize the tanks without using another motor that uses fuel......

  • Manual air pump..you can get some cardio on your off time. or get a mule to do it.

  • cool other then the noise but im sure you can make some sort of muffler system for it or something

  • good work! how far can it go befor refilling?

  • Man I always want a go cart that has no power and looks stupid how y the hell did you was your time building that stupid piece of shit

  • people said the same shit to orvill and wilbur Wright dumbass, quit dissing peoples work you never know when they'll have the next big thing.. u know what.. just jump off a bridge or something , save the world some annoyance would ya

  • FerrilEwok, the comparison with the Wright brothers was well said..

  • thats cool

  • sound like farting on a wooden floor lol

  • how the fuck would u know wut farting on a wooden floor sounds like?

  • heh

  • Cool idea, but I think I saw grandpa pass it on an electric scooter from Meijer.

  • very cool and sounds like a fart!

  • Okay that is beyond totally cool!!! great stuff

  • How many miles to you get per gallon of Air?lol

  • MORE PLEASE!

    I am really impressed with how well it works... and I would feel great driving it knowing that all im emitting is fresh air! :D

    But re-filling it might boost your hydro bill by a few hundred dollars lol.

  • Ya, but a lot less efficiently...

  • seems a bit weak on the torque side of things

  • wow... that is awesome. xD

  • what is the torque and horsepower specs on that thing, and what motors is it using?

  • ladies and gentlemen: the answer to the fuel crisis!

  • how is that they answer?You need fuel to pressurize the air tank

  • it's called wind

  • Use another air engine that can power an air compressor that can pressurize the air tank.

  • Use another air engine? then you would have the same problem with that air engine. You would need fuel to pressurize the tank for that one. and so on and so for..

  • The main engine can power a compressor itself.

    They sell onboard air compressor systems that you can put on a 4 wheeling truck that can be spun by the engine and can be used to inflate tires (after deflating for traction off road...) or power air tools.

    They have similar devices on some big trucks that are equipped with "pneumatic starters".

  • that's cool!!! how fast does it go

  • Cool! They should make a "hybrid" with air and electric, then, instead of gas and electric.

  • I made an air electric hybrid in my video.

  • That is FANTASTIC, I'm sure with more analysing of its components, more testing and probably more modifications, this will truly be something GREAT! I like where this is going VERY MUCH.

  • I enjoy seeing people using their brain for stuff to take us in the right direction. Cool vid

  • as soon as one of those scuba tanks ruptures.... bye bye

  • I've actually never heard or seen an air tank rupture or explode, so it's not something I would lose sleep over. Too bad there's so many idiots on here that when they see something like this, they immediately think of the SAFETY problem. What a bunch of girliemen.

  • actually if you wanted a quick burst of nitro you could purposefully vent one of the cans lol

  • that sucks its toooooo slow!!!

  • it's a start

  • it sounds close to an actual gasoline engine. or a propeller plane hahaha. good work.

  • hey how much r those?

  • hes running out of boost

  • I want one! 5/5

  • You can prolly rake up more speed if you apply more pressure, but not so much that your engine explodes, and also i was wondering, do you have any lubrication on it cause it sounded really rough.

  • Not very fast.

  • but better than walking

  • true, but give me my YFZ 450, or my 12hp kart, or any one of my cars over it any day.

  • yea but you don't need to pay for gas.

  • Who cares! Once again, I'd much rather pay for like $20 bucks worth of gas (which will last all day in my YFZ) and have to hold on for dear life, than just put around slower than i can run.

  • whatever. wayy cooler anyway.

  • It's cool, i'm not doubting that in any way. But still, give me top speed, and acceleration (which is way cooler) over this any day. Find a way to make this go 90mph, and accelerate like an internal combustion engine can, with an all day range, now THAT would be cool!

  • or you could hook up a cheap comppressor to a small bettery put it on, and you can have fun refueling, while it goes on and on. besides, it probably wasn't meant for speed, just a prototype. after all gas engines had thier days of problems too.

  • Exactly, I'm pretty sure the first gas engine wasn't exacly as fast as anything we have now. With a little bit of R&D this technology could get us out of out of our so called energy crisis, or many other technologies for that matter.