The Air Car

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After fourteen years of research and development, the French automaker MDI has created a car that runs on air! The car uses Compressed Air Technology (CAT) and produces zero emissions.

The CAT car is powered by a thermodynamic motor that runs on air compressed to 4,350 psi. When the air enters the engine it expands and exerts force on pistons, thus creating the power. When the driver presses the accelerator, a valve opens which sends air to the engine. The bodies are made from lightweight fiberglass, which is cheap and easy to produce.

The CAT car can reach up to 110 km/h (68 mph), and has a driving range of up to 200 km that continues to improve.

Once the initial 52-gallon fill has been emptied, the CAT's tank can be recharged in 4 hours for about $2 from a nearby electrical outlet or can be hooked up to a gas station's compressed air station which is free and only takes two or three minutes.

Finally, a car company that isn't just full of hot air.

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[jagara1]

So it's green and yet it needs recharging via an electric point of already compressed air..?

Doesn't sound particularly green to me unless the electricity or compressed air is provided by the tooth fairy...

[fizzguts]

@FRdemo9 The actual range is about 7 km maybe 15km for the airpod, and that is with a 6hp engine You need a 6kw compressor running for about 6 hours to recharge this piece of crap. The inefficiency and miserable range make it a non starter.

By the way batteries are knocking on 90% efficient for storing power. generators and electric motors have similar efficiencies. Compressors and air motors are hideous by comparison with minimal room for improvement

[FRdemo9]

@Eqfases Any time you store energy as potential energy and then use it for work; a substantial amount of the original energy will be lost. No machine is even close to 100% efficient. I have no way of verifying 200km per tank but 2 dollars of electricity to move a van 200 km hardly sounds like a waste of energy to me. If you were really concerned about it, you could have solar panels slowly fill a large tank at home, and then fill up from that.

[CAROTTABR]

Bem , é o caso do Superfluxos, um aparelho muito interessante que utilizo no meu motor , funciona e até hoje não vi nenhum incentivo e aleás sofreram uma conspiração forte da industri petrolífera.

[HDCiaran]

Awesome. Only if every car could be lake that.

[Eqfases]

Plain and simple: This uses more energy to compress air than the one it delivers, so a complete waste of energy.

[slh950]

be really cool if you could inject the air manually, ie with pedals

[THEJOKEYJOKER]

@tulpengekte sure no emissions , usa has fat people who should do some work outs and generate some electricity , thus there will be neither emissions nor fat people and diseases !! isn't that great lol !

[2karriizman]

Most cars spend a lot of time in a car park.Light is avaliable every day in most parts of the world and can be used to create electricity useing solar panels on cars to charge batteries drive brushless motors and on board compressors to fill air tanks for nite driveing if needed.There is no reason with todays technologies for the use of any polluting energy source.If we do not change our polluting ways this planet will become uninhabitable for life as we know it.Fossil and nuke fuel stinks.

[TheKaos90]

@tulpengekte Actually you have a point but it stands for today , maybe a few years later you will be able to charge the tanks using non-pollutive energy