Friday, February 15, 2008

Five-seat concept car runs on air

An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in town. The OneCAT will be a five-seater with a glass fiber body, weighing just 350kg and could cost just over £2,500. It will be driven by compressed air stored in carbon-fiber tanks built into the chassis.
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The tanks can be filled with air from a compressor in just three minutes - much quicker than a battery car. The designers say on long journeys the car will do the equivalent of 120mpg. In town, running on air, it will be cheaper than that. "The first buyers will be people who care about the environment," says French inventor Guy Negre.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds great until the first time one of them gets in an accident.

Have you ever seen a truck tire or a scuba bottle explode??? Compressed air is more dangerous than gasoline and goes off like dynamite!!!

I can just see the line of lawyers waiting to sue the pants off of anyone that would let these on the road....

Anonymous said...

Yeah, go watch the Mythbusters episode where they snapped off the head of a compressed gas cylinder and it went through a concrete block wall.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode63