The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
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The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
Did anyone catch that segment on a recent Discovery Channel show about "Future Fuels"? There is info about it all over the net now, from CNN, The BBC, etc. Here is the website of the company in France that is making it. Incredible
http://theaircar.com/
http://theaircar.com/
#2
Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
Hi,
You might take a look at the "energy density" of various forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Our gasoline powered hybrids have more than two orders of magnitude more energy available. Even after thermodynamic losses, 1/3d, we're still in the 18 MJ/kg range, just under two orders of magnitude.
Bob Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Originally Posted by Wiki
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46.9 - gasoline
. . .
0.27-0.306 - Zinc-bromine flow battery
0.27 - compressed air at 20 bar
0.22 - NiMH battery
. . .
46.9 - gasoline
. . .
0.27-0.306 - Zinc-bromine flow battery
0.27 - compressed air at 20 bar
0.22 - NiMH battery
. . .
Bob Wilson
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Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
I also did an interview with JP Maeder, head of ZEVCAT, an anacronym for Zero Emissions Vehicle Compressed Air Technology, out of Northern CA who talks alot about the promise of this technology. You can listen to this interview at http://www.nextgearshow.com/1721/zev...nd-the-air-car
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Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
Burmmer... I should have got the patent! One day in Junior High when I was really bored, I thought that it might be possible to power a car on compressed air. I had it all figured out in my head... a small lawn-mower type of engine ran a compressor and the hood area was filled with storage tanks. I never really knew if you could get highway speeds out of something like that, but in my head it totally replaced gasoline engines... and that was back when gasoline was hovering around $1 per gallon!
#5
Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
Hi,
You might take a look at the "energy density" of various forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Our gasoline powered hybrids have more than two orders of magnitude more energy available. Even after thermodynamic losses, 1/3d, we're still in the 18 MJ/kg range, just under two orders of magnitude.
Bob Wilson
You might take a look at the "energy density" of various forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Our gasoline powered hybrids have more than two orders of magnitude more energy available. Even after thermodynamic losses, 1/3d, we're still in the 18 MJ/kg range, just under two orders of magnitude.
Bob Wilson
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Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
The MDI AirPod Compressed air car is gonna be launched in Hawaii later this year. If the vehicle gains good response, we can see compressed air supplying stations cropping up like gas stations.
http://www.indiancarsbikes.in/cars/t...etails-112418/
Do you think Air Cars can be just as viable and practical as a regular pure EV?
http://www.indiancarsbikes.in/cars/t...etails-112418/
Do you think Air Cars can be just as viable and practical as a regular pure EV?
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Re: The "Air Car", a car that runs on compressed air
It's good to see that the scientists and researchers aren't resting on their laurels about what can and can't be used to power our vehicles, although I'm not sure anything else chemically created will be as "clean" as the hydrogen or compressed air option.
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