Interesting Transportation Technology

May 16, 2009 by mike.

Thanks to the Guardian for the article. We do have alternatives to internal combustion engine and the day is coming when we will need to make the switch.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk On the road with the Airpod air-powered car An air-powered car? Sounds almost too good to be true - so a sceptical Alex Benady took one for a test drive How would you react to someone who tried to sell you a car that runs on fresh air? Perhaps you would think he was peddling a potentially planet-saving technology. More likely you would dismiss him as a conman or a fantasist. Yet that is precisely the pitch being made by French auto engineer Guy Negre, a good-humoured man in his mid-60s who claims to have developed a car powered by compressed air: one that produces a fraction of the carbon emissions of a standard engine, reaches speeds of 30mph-plus, that can travel 65 miles on a one-minute recharge and, best of all, costs from just over �3,000.

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