CibbuanoThis car runs on air!
January 23rd 2008 11:11
I wrote about this earlier and it looks as if it's going to take off... Guy Negre, French inventor, created a car that runs on compressed air and Tata, the Indian car manufacturer is going to mass produce the vehicles, selling them for about $10 000.
Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!
Did you hear me? A car that runs on air and costs $10 000? This could be the spark we've been waiting for.
From Plenty Magazine, the car can run for about 60 miles on one tank of air, which can be filled by an industrial compressor in two minutes, or by plugging the vehicle in for four hours.
The car has plenty of critics... after all 60 miles isn't a lot, and at the end of the day, the car is still using electricity, which is polluting somewhere.
But this is a great start - and a brilliant one... a gasoline car uses the energy of the fuel to compress air... this just bypasses the fuel and uses compressed air to start. Efficient, I'd say, especially as the technology matures.
Yes, it's using electricity, but this way, we have more control over the efficiency of the energy generation, even mitigating the pollution by using other technologies, such as solar or hydro.
Of course, we'll have to see how this pans out... it's still unknown how safe the vehicle is, carrying around a tank of compressed air,
Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!
Did you hear me? A car that runs on air and costs $10 000? This could be the spark we've been waiting for.
From Plenty Magazine, the car can run for about 60 miles on one tank of air, which can be filled by an industrial compressor in two minutes, or by plugging the vehicle in for four hours.
The car has plenty of critics... after all 60 miles isn't a lot, and at the end of the day, the car is still using electricity, which is polluting somewhere.
But this is a great start - and a brilliant one... a gasoline car uses the energy of the fuel to compress air... this just bypasses the fuel and uses compressed air to start. Efficient, I'd say, especially as the technology matures.
Yes, it's using electricity, but this way, we have more control over the efficiency of the energy generation, even mitigating the pollution by using other technologies, such as solar or hydro.
Of course, we'll have to see how this pans out... it's still unknown how safe the vehicle is, carrying around a tank of compressed air,
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