Air Car Gooooood!
Compressed Air Car On Track For Production This Year
The vehicle, which uses a motor powered by 4,000 psi of compressed air stored in carbon fiber tanks, will actually start production in India soon – after 15 years in development – thanks to some help from India’s biggest automaker, Tata, which itself just unveiled the world’s least expensive car called the Nano. The MDI Citycat and Minicat are built from lightweight materials and offer large passenger and luggage space with zero emissions motoring. The energy required to refill the compressed air tanks reportedly costs about $2, and there are optional propulsion units to extend the roughly 90-mile (at speeds of 40mph or below) range of the vehicle so you aren’t stuck if your air car runs out of breath.
It’s going to get better with age. Five years, it’ll have the air compressor onboard to “refuel” the tanks, and I’m expecting more speed… and LARGER cars, of course.
