The air powered car mentioned in this thread is now supposed to be built Down Under.
MELBOURNE is set to be the manufacturing home base for a car that operates with zero emissions and can run solely on compressed air.
Guy Negre, who used to design engines for Formula One team Renault, has spent the past 15 years developing the air engine and says the first manufacturing plant will be established in Melbourne with cars expected to go on sale next year.
Mr Negre, the managing director of IT MDI-Energy, which will manufacture the air car, and partner Louis Arnoux have been in Melbourne this month to demonstrate the technology, which is part of a five-year $1.5 billion planned roll-out across Australia. The Victorian and Federal governments have been shown the technology, as well as other potential investors.
Wonder how these guys are going to handle the news?
Xema
December 8, 2007, 3:37am
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This, from the second link, puzzles me:
The compressors found at most service stations are small things suitable for topping up tires - they probably max out at around 80 psi. How is this going to transfer enough energy to the air car to give it a range of 150km?
Got me. Back when I had a Jeep, I could always tell when the tire was full as the compressor at the service station would start to give out.