I need one of these air cars

[pel7]

AMAZING AIR CAR FROM INDIA .......OF ALL PLACES


I want one of these - or two or three. Maybe we can have these shipped here to the USA ? Heck, even with shipping costs, it's gotta be cheaper than paying $4.00 per gallon at the pump!

This is the same company which-a few months back-invented a car that costs only $2500 new. BUT it's not available in the USA Why is it that a gasless vehicle that eliminates the reason to buy oil from foreign countries hasn't nipped the minds of US manufacturers? How bad can this be for anybody, anywhere in the world -- except for foreign oil?



AMAZING AIR CAR!



The Compressed Air Car, developed by Motor Development International (MDI) F ounder Guy Negre, might be the best thing to happen to the motor engine, and people all over the world.

The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, goes for a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor u nits. MDI says it should cost only around $2 to fill the car up with 340 liters of air!

The Air Car will be starting production soon, thanks to India 's TATA Motors.


Forget corn! That's a joke.

There's fuel, user friendly, pocketbook friendly fuel! What can be better than air?

Cool Concept











6-seater taxi should be available in India in 2008:





Now If We will just DEMAND this technology in the USA , we

can tell Saudi Arabia , Venezuela & dirty foreign oil to take a hike!

I resent it, but can see why jobs are going to India & why we are importing

people from India to do jobs that Americans CAN'T.

But I can't see why we have the most unfriendly energy congress in

US history, or why they waste time fussing & fighting while we suffer.

 

[Mags]

This would be a cool idea.... interested to see how the car looks....

But as far as we suffering? Our Gas prices are much lower (even now) than many Euro countries...

We do not have to drive:
1. There is public transportation,
2. Could always walk or ride bike
3. Could move closer to work, where walking would be a viable option,
4. Could work out of our homes.
5. Don't need to have 3 driving (or flying) vacations a year to FL.

The bottom line - is we are a convenience society that chooses to drive. So why complain about the cost?

Now, businesses are another story - those that need fuel to survive - like airlines, truckers, etc.

I'll be each and every one of us could cut the number of miles we drive in a year by 50% if we really tried. Eliminate long trips, take bikes, move closer to work, etc.

We are our own worst enemy. The enemy is not the oil companies/countries. We are.

 

[vinnie]

This would be a cool idea.... interested to see how the car looks....

IN the push to free the auto industry from its dependence on oil, all kinds of alternatives are being tried. Consider now the refreshing concept of cars that run on air.

The idea sounds simple: compress air and release it to operate a piston engine. But the execution is difficult, and in one form or another it has occupied engineers since the 19th century.

One of the latest is Guy N?gre, a Frenchman who founded Motor Development International, now MDI Enterprises, in Carros, France, in 1991. He produced his first compressed-air engine five years later. We have developed 14 vehicles and have three running prototype cars Mr. N?gre said.

In the latest of Mr. N?gres patented designs, compressed air in tanks below the floor is injected into the cylinders, each with two chambers. Air in the main chamber drives a piston, which drives the crankshaft, which drives the wheels. When the piston pauses, a smaller one in an expansion chamber recompresses the air and injects it back into the main chamber to make more power.

One prototype, which looks like a big version of a Smart car, can top 68 miles an hour and, at lower speeds, travel up to 120 miles without refueling. Plug the car into an outlet, and the engine, in compressor mode, will refill the tank in four hours.

Mr. N?gres company is also working on a dual-energy engine, or one with a burner that heats the air to increase its volume, enhancing power and range.

Experiments with compressed air in Europe date to the mid-19th century. And between 1898 and 1931, American carmakers produced seven compressed-air models, said Kim M. Miller, the librarian for the Antique Automobile Club of America. A 1931 prototype called the Meyers used an electric heater to warm the air. But there were glitches, and gasoline was so cheap it was even hard for air to compete.

To help overcome the challenges of a pure-air engine, some inventors are moving to dual-energy systems and hybrids. The Energine Corporation of South Korea is working on a design that augments an electric motor with a compressed-air engine that accelerates the car from a standstill and kicks in on hills. Compressed air recharges the electric motors batteries (which can also be recharged by regenerative braking, or by plugging the car in an outlet).

The car can maintain a speed of 74 m.p.h. for 30 minutes, Energine says.

The Scuderi Group, in West Springfield, Mass., has a hybrid engine design that compresses air and burns petroleum fuel in separate cylinders and uses some compressed air to extend the petroleum engine.

Sal Scuderi, president of the company, said that this split cycle design eliminates traditional combustion chambers, and splits pistons into those pulling air in and compressing it, and those burning fuel and exhausting it.The company is preparing diesel and gasoline prototypes for release by 2009.

Entrepreneurial companies are not the only ones experimenting with compressed air. In 2003, Ford Motor and Tsu-Chin Tsao, an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, presented a design for an air-gasoline hybrid that would improve fuel efficiency by about 65 percent in the city and 12 percent on the highway.

Professor Tsao said that one advantage of such hybrids is that they do not require the electronics and large electric motor and battery of a gas-electric hybrid. However, in practical terms he said, there are still many hurdles to overcome.

Mr. N?gre has signed a 20 million euro (about $28 million) agreement with Tata Motors, Indias largest automaker, to deliver mono- and dual-energy vehicles in hopes of putting them on the market in India by 2009.

 

[Mags]

Well, it ain't gonna be the impressive styling that draws folks to these cars, that's for sure......

It looks too much like a minivan - which is the ugliest car on the road (ok, maybe right behind the Hummer)

 

[hedgehog]

imagine if I hit you in your air car with my Tahoe:mj07: you lose...

great concept, except no money for the big corporations:shrug: