The Car That Runs On AIR. (Not The Onion)

[N2NH]

Yep. A real car and it runs on AIR.

We breathe it. Why not drive it?
Peugeot Citroen this week introduced a car that runs on air. The car manufacturer said the vehicle should be available by 2016.
"We're quite confident," company spokesman Jean-Baptiste Thomas told The Huffington Post on Wednesday.
Thomas said the company already had developed four of its "Hybrid Air" prototypes and driven them 12,000 miles.

Peugeot To Produce Air Powered Car by 2016.

But wait there's more! The Peugeot car is a hybrid. This car is powered by Air only:



Seeing is believing. Air is the energy of the future. Zero emissions and the technology is here now.

[KG4CGC]

Virginia legislatures would go around slashing their tires while screeching, "Where's your precious air now?"

[PA5COR]

It is an already older concept.
The assembly plant is due to start construction in early 2002 and be ready for production in 2003. The car has a 50hp engine, a range of 312 Km (195 Miles) and can run 100Km (62.5 Miles) on ?0.6 ($0.625USD). Top speed is 120Km/h (75MPH). It can be refueled in around 3 minutes by a compressed air machine (300 bar internal pressure) in a propperly equiped gas station, or in around 4 hours by a built-in air compressor plugged into a household-variety power socket. An outline of the concept can be found here.
Although initially slated for the public transportation, taxis,distribution and logistics markets (evaluation units on pre-order from several local companies), it is expected to have some penetration into the consumer market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_D..._International

[KG4CGC]

Last time this was brought up, my understanding was that the US would not allow it here. Similar to the 75mpg VWs. Not allowed on US roads.

[PA5COR]

Oil companies woulld not make a dime, so it's out? ;)

[al2n]

Oil companies woulld not make a dime, so it's out? ;)

They will find a way to patent air and charge you for it I am sure.

[PA5COR]

I bet our Shell will be a frontrunner on that one...

[KG4CGC]

I bet our Shell will be a frontrunner on that one...

Oil companies could have been the front runners in many areas but chose not to. What name fits this behavior?

[N2NH]

Oil companies could have been the front runners in many areas but chose not to. What name fits this behavior?

Avarice. Good old American Avarice or in Teabonix, "Capitalism."

[n2ize]

They will find a way to patent air and charge you for it I am sure.

They won't have to. Since there is no "free energy" loop and the car runs on compressed air, or liquid nitrogen, energy is going to have to be consumed to compress the air or nitrogen. In other words thermodynamics says that you are not going to get any more energy out of the car than you put in, and, depending on the efficiency you may get slightly less energy out or significantly less energy out. In other words to compress the air you are going to need a compressor and most likely that compressor is going to run on electricity which is in turn produced by oil, coal, or natural gas. Or the compressor may run directly on gasoline, or some sort of fuel. Ultimately, even if you were to theoretically get 100% efficiency from the car you are going to get out of the car the same amount of energy (ability to do work) that was consumed in the form of electricity, oil, coal, etc. used to compress the air. And since the efficiency will most likely be less than 100% you will get somewhat less energy out than you put in.