This six-seater tax, which should be available in India next year, is powered entirely by a tank filled with compressed air.[/align][/align]By Matt Sullivan [/align]Published in the June 2007 issue. Popular Mechanics[/align][/align]India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008.

Barring any last-minute design changes on the way to production, the Air Car should be surprisingly practical. The $12,700 CityCAT, one of a handful of planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units; MDI says it should cost around $2 to fill the car’s carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air at 4350 psi. Drivers also will be able to plug into the electrical grid and use the car’s built-in compressor to refill the tanks in about 4 hours.

Of course, the Air Car will likely never hit American shores, especially considering its all-glue construction. But that doesn’t mean the major automakers can write it off as a bizarre Indian experiment — MDI has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa.[/align]


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WeIrD Looking Engine!!! COOL THOUGH!!!

 

Here is one better..nothing in production yet..but you wait and see what comes of this in the next 5 to 10 years...Remember, you see it here first!!

SALT WATER FIRE

 

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Show me.....and provide the search criteria you used to find said post.

I seek enlightenment.

 

68mph?? I guess it's only for driving in the city??

 

68mph That's just about fast enough to get you run over here in Dallas

I thought that engine was pretty cool till I saw Mr. Clean's flaming salt water.

Either one of those technologies could make huge changes in the world as we know it.

Just think of all the utility vehicles that could run off the CA motor alone...

Fork Lifts, meter maid buggies, mail trucks, delivery vehicles.....

The salt water thing though, has more far reaching implications.....

Wonder if I will ever see it in my life time?

(That would leave just that much more gas for our HUMMERS)