http://www.theaircar.com/howitworks.html
On the CBS News early edition....
I saw a report on a father and son team in France who have invented and perfected a little car which actually runs on compressed air.... it is explained in the link above. Google has a few more links to
the information - I've posted only one.
Apparently you drive into the "air station" and fill er up with more air when required. It runs for 120 miles (I don't know the km thing but the specs above will probably have that)... and it is approximately $2.00 to refill the compressor.
Clean air - clean motor - oh ya the lady driver Sheila McVicar (a Canadian working in the U.S. for CBS) said it sounds a bit like a lawnmower. Having never driven a lawnmore (I've always pushed mine).... I can't tell if she was right or not.
They will be ready in a year or two for mass marketing.
It is a big on the ugly side but it is a prototype which should look ugly so people will take them seriously I guess. It looks a bit like a larger, rounded edge golf cart.... but quite clean and neat inside. The do not accelerate beyond 65 MPH thus avoiding many deaths in the future of fast cars.....
Don't know if they will ever be integrated on the same roads as gas guzzlers - it would probably take a whole city/region to adopt the rules - and then no doubt a family would have to use a regular gas guzzler for longer journies.
Still......there is hope!
On the CBS News early edition....
I saw a report on a father and son team in France who have invented and perfected a little car which actually runs on compressed air.... it is explained in the link above. Google has a few more links to
the information - I've posted only one.
Apparently you drive into the "air station" and fill er up with more air when required. It runs for 120 miles (I don't know the km thing but the specs above will probably have that)... and it is approximately $2.00 to refill the compressor.
Clean air - clean motor - oh ya the lady driver Sheila McVicar (a Canadian working in the U.S. for CBS) said it sounds a bit like a lawnmower. Having never driven a lawnmore (I've always pushed mine).... I can't tell if she was right or not.
They will be ready in a year or two for mass marketing.
It is a big on the ugly side but it is a prototype which should look ugly so people will take them seriously I guess. It looks a bit like a larger, rounded edge golf cart.... but quite clean and neat inside. The do not accelerate beyond 65 MPH thus avoiding many deaths in the future of fast cars.....
Don't know if they will ever be integrated on the same roads as gas guzzlers - it would probably take a whole city/region to adopt the rules - and then no doubt a family would have to use a regular gas guzzler for longer journies.
Still......there is hope!