Car that runs on compressed air...

[vray]

The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4hs607eNYQ&

 

[champana]

genius.

 

[ChrismonDA]

I may be showing my age but does anybody remember the Air Jammer Road Rammer? It ran on compressed air.. That was a fun toy.

 

[sven]

Neato. Now if it runs on farts, Id buy it in a heartbeat!

 

[Ol'Drippy]

Neato. Now if it runs on farts, Id buy it in a heartbeat!

And I would be a wealthy man

 

[JMK]

I wonder if you could adapt it to work on liquid nitrogen? Bet you would get going a bit faster then the what(?) a 100 Psi system. Run that bitch up to 3K psi. Might be interesting. Apparently, LN2 can be bought for as low as .50$ per gallon in bulk (not real sure what the consider bulk to be but what the hell.)

 

[flyfisher11]

I wonder if you could adapt it to work on liquid nitrogen? Bet you would get going a bit faster then the what(?) a 100 Psi system. Run that bitch up to 3K psi. Might be interesting. Apparently, LN2 can be bought for as low as .50$ per gallon in bulk (not real sure what the consider bulk to be but what the hell.)

You can snag the guts of one of the new LN2 carts that makes it's own LN2 right from the atmosphere and retrofit it!

 

[JMK]

You can snag the guts of one of the new LN2 carts that makes it's own LN2 right from the atmosphere and retrofit it!

I totally mis-read that... I'm dumb... that would be interesting though.

 

[EJB90]

The only problem with this car is that you have to compress the air which takes energy which in most cases produces pollution.

Still a very cool idea and could have a lot of applications.

 

[Urban Exploer]

Maybe he can prefect that DEI I saw on the GM forum.

Thats cool though.

Leo

 

[wturner]

The only problem with this car is that you have to compress the air which takes energy which in most cases produces pollution.

Still a very cool idea and could have a lot of applications.

These are the things that the screaming hippies never consider. The environmental cost to create the batteries that go in your hybrid, the environmental cost of creating the solar panel to put on your roof...

The ideas are good and moving in the right direction, but the answer is not here yet.

I didn't watch this video but it sounds like the same loon that was on the Discovery Channel about a year ago. I say loon cause he called it perpetual motion.

 

[ptschram]

There was a local guy who built one. It ran about 50 feet and needed air.

 

[wturner]

Sounds like skate boarding up hill. More work than walking