Ive posted this video some day ago. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/216388.html This car can run 200km without polluting the atmosphere and the best thing is you can fill her up for just $1.50's worth of compressed air. I want you guys to spread the word about this car. I know the design is ugly but its not horrible and its about the concept not model. Man think about it zero pollution and this car clean the air too so for thous who think that compressing air is pollution tahn think about it twice. We need change and fast. ps. srry for my english. Here are some of the usseful comments: "Like any new technology (although it's not new per say, it is new to the mainstream), there would be complications and obstacles to overcome before the situation levels out to what we are currently used to. Unknown reliability because it's new. Poor customer support when something breaks because of a lack of trained mechanics. Poor "fuel" distribution because air compressors are not available everywhere, and the current ones are not necessarily compatible. Sub-par safety ratings. And many more. But, give the technology time and support, and it could easily replace a very large portion of the current vehicles. Of course you wouldn't use these engines for everything. They are not adequate for certain tasks and vehicles (powerful trucks, sport cars, etc). What you need to remember is: Low-cost cars. Low-cost fuel. Low impact on the environment: it takes a lot less energy to compress air than it takes to import fuel from other countries and get them to your local gas station. Emerging countries are getting more and more cars. A compressed-air engine would have an infinitely lower impact on global warming and the environment in general. Resource independent fuel: Imagine if the USA were independent of the middle-east when it comes to fuel. There is simply an overwhelming amount of reasons why this type of engine is better than our current one, that to not invest in it would be sheer stupidity." and: Hydrogen fuel cells cars are what big companies (car and oil companies) want you to buy for a couple of reasons: 1.)They are overengineered, overdesigned, and way too sophisticated for the efficiency they produce. By being so complicated they ensure the car industry maintains the ability to have a lucrative business fixing and repairing failing vehicles. THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO FIX THE CAR. If you do it, they can't make more money off you. 2.)Oil companies would love for you to use liquid Hydrogen because you have no access to producing it on your own. Not only that, even if you could produce it at home, you wouldn't want to because of its dangerous, highly volitile/explosive nature. Electric and compressed air vehicles' fuel can be produced at home by either plugging into the electrical grid to recharge the batteries or using an air compressor to refuel the air tanks. 3.)Oil companies want to be in control of a liquid fuel that only they can produce in order to monopolize and control your wallet. They'd love to transition from one dangerous liquid fuel to another so they can keep on raping your wallet every time you need to refuel your car. To refuel the car above at a service station would only take 3 minutes (less than it takes to refuel a current car with gasoline) and only cost you $1.75 for 130 miles worth of range. An average gas car has a range 2 to 3 times that but cost 30 to 40 times the amount of money ($40.00 to $60.00 on average for a full tank of gas these days). Would you rather just stop at a service station 2 or 3 times instead of once and save $50.00? The oil companies sure hope you don't. PEOPLE, DON'T BE MORONS BY BEING SHALLOW AND HATING ON THE AESTHETICS OF THESE VEHICLES. These are first iterations of brand new technologies that if perfected and implemented correctly could fulfill a wide diversity of functional and aesthetic purposes. Don't buy into the hype that big car companies and oil companies lobby for and advertise for. Their propoganda will set us back another 100 years and at our expense...the only ones to profit from this will be big car corporations and oil companies. SO DON'T BUY INTO THEIR ****. THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY. SUPPORT GRASSROOT AND SMALL, LOCAL COMPANIES AND TECHNOLOGIES. This world's honesty and health depend on it.
I think research into cars run by compressed air is a good thing but i don't think we should get too excited about them yet since they are not zero emission unless the electricity you need to charge them is produced through wind and we're still a long way off them being efficent enough to be pratical for most people. I'm also not sure how the car is able to clean the air >>. But with enough support these could be very good for cars in cities where power and range isn't too important (Indeed Mexico has purchased 40000 taxis powered by compressed air to reduce pollution in Mexico City). Also don't be negative about fuel cells since their ability to make big corporations money is what will support them and help them enter the mainstream market (If what you are saying is infact true.....). If you were the head of a company which employed tens of thousands of people which would you pour money into to get off the ground and develop to be more efficient?
Overall, the idea is a good one. Compressed air cars are simpler to maintain and build than most any car today, and they have a pollution-free way to store energy. I agree with that part. There are some shortcomings, though. Gases heat up when compressed, but once the gas is being stored that heat energy will dissipate into the environment, decreasing the pressure energy in the tanks. I haven't looked a great deal at these cars, so it is possible that the energy lost in this form is insignificant compared to energy losses in other storage media, but I suspect this is not the case. A preliminary check on Wikipedia says that battery storage of energ...ir cars may one day be a great way to travel.
i like the car, soomething i always dreamed of , and it doesnt even pollute on another note: why do people always talk about the USA being independant of the middle-east, and never europe?
