Air Powered Car

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PolyU’s department of electrical engineering, in collaboration with Green Power Industrial, has developed an air conditioning system for cars that utilizes a photovoltaic solar panel to power the air conditioning system when the engine is off. The solar The first product, the CityCAT, reaches a top speed of 68mph and can go about 125 miles without refilling the carbon fiber compressed air chambers. The CityCAT's made of lightweight, glued-together fiberglass and foam, and the engine is made up almost A Lego car built out of 500,000 individual pieces is crazy enough for most people. Thankfully for Lego fans everywhere, Steve Sammartino, a Melbourne-based entrepreneur, and Raul Oaida, a tech whizz from Romania, wanted to create something even more special. We snickered aloud when we first read about MDI's vehicles powered by compressed air. But MDI wasn t, ahem, deflated by our initial skepticism. The company is moving forward on its plans to offer an air-electric powered vehicle for sale in 2005, and even Can you hear the cafÃ© chatter? "Your fuel cell car runs on hydrogen and emits only water? Oh, Darling, that's so 2004! See my MiniCat over the road there? Air, sweetie. Thats all it needs. And all it emits." What she probably wouldn't tell her fellow If a life-sized Lego car that actually drives and is powered by nothing but air doesn't sound cool enough, consider this: The project was funded in part through a single tweet. The car runs on compressed air, is made up of more than 500,000 Legos and can .

In the sea of green home building startups showing off sustainable materials at the West Coast Green show, it was hard to miss the booth of engineers in the corner touting a car powered by compressed air. The company called Magnetic Air Cars Inc says it is What happens if you take 500,000 pieces of Lego and 256 pistons, then hand them over to Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida? This fully functioning, life-size, air-powered Lego car is what. With four orbital engines powering the massive lump of plastic bricks He also expects each factory licensee to sell its own cars. The U.S. licensee is a startup called Zero Pollution Motors, based in New Paltz, N.Y. According to Popular Mechanics, Z.P.M. plans on delivering M.D.I.’s air-powered cars by the end of 2009 or The US version of the car would run exclusively on compressed air at low speeds. Above 35 mph, a small gasoline engine would kick in to provide the car with enough additional power to stand a chance of holding its own on US highways. Then, early in 2009, .