New car can run on compressed air - or just about anything
It looks ugly as sin -- but you could say the same thing about a Volvo.
But who cares? The new car from Zero Pollution Motors can run on compressed air, gasoline (106 miles per gallon), diesel, biodiesel, ethanol or vegetable oil. Also: Indian carmaker Tata is going to market them in the U.S. at $20,000 a pop.
It can go 35 mph running on just compressed air and can go highway speeds for 800 miles at a stretch with the motor running on any of the other fuels it accepts.
We could see them as soon as 2011.
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I think the design team loosely based them off the classic Little Tikes Cozy Coupe. The windows have improved with technology, of course.
Observe: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Tikes-4855-Cozy-Coupe/dp/B00000IRTS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1225749152&sr=8-1
Also very green, they ran on foot-power.
Not sure how safe I'd feel in either on the big, bad roads.
Posted on November 3, 2008 4:55 PM
It meets the Federal definition of a motorcycle. And Europe already has air cars.
Posted on November 3, 2008 6:51 PM
Kathryn:
Ah...there's a good observation. Something seemed eerily familiar to me about it.
Billy:
Don't start me on all the ways we could do to catch up with much of Europe...
Posted on November 4, 2008 5:45 PM