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Interesting Transportation Technology

Posted By mike On May 16, 2009 @ 10:08 am In News, Connect the Dots, Small Foot Print, Global Warming | 2 Comments

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.

[1] clipped from [2] 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

Airpod City Car
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 [3] 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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[3] carbon emissions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carbon-emissions
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