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Compressed air car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A compressed air car is an alternative fuel car that uses a motor powered by compressed air. The car can be powered solely by air, or combined (as in a hybrid electric vehicle) with gasoline/diesel/...
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The Air Car's pistons, pumped by the escaping compressed air, can take the vehicle up to 70 miles per hour. It can travel 50 miles at top speed on a full tank, or further at lower speeds. ... Krause's organization pushes a much simpler recipe for cutting greenhouse gas and toxic emissions from vehicles.
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Onecat Compressed Air Vehicle (Air Car) appeared at the 2008 New York Auto Show! ... Volunteers helping bring compressed air vehicles to North America, (the Minicat, Citycat and Onecat air cars invented by Guy Negre of MDI)
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This page refers expressly to vehicles that are driven by stored compressed air to provide independent locomotion. In contrast, the German diesel-pneumatic locomotive used compressed air purely as a transmission element between a diesel engine and the cylinders turning the wheels.
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My impression is that the Air Car (only compressed air) is not efficient nor ecological. A galine car of the same power, weight, etc that an air car is more efficient and ecological. To compress/store air is very inefficient, and the energy you need poluted the environment (electricity from carbon, gas, oil).
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It cannot be claimed that compressed air as an energy and locomotion vector is precisely recent technology. In fact at the end of the 19th century the first approximations to what could one day become a compressed air driven vehicle already existed, through the arrival of the first pneumatic locomotives.
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