New Air Car

Cool! Since I just got a new car, this one should be perfected by the time I'm ready for a new one again. Let's hope!
 
Man that's an ugly little car, but certainly something I'll check out if it lives up to the claims.
 
heh, knew you (or samina) would have to disagree with me on that.

SOme of their little drawings aren't bad, but the little fake pickup and the one with the shark tail on it are UGLY. I rest my case. :)
 
I think it's really cute!

I currently drive a Honda Insight Hybrid (looks like a pod car), and I'll be looking to replace in 2010, so if this comes along the heck yeah!
 
the cityCAT one looks very practical... and the little sporty SUV-looking one with the roll bar just cracks me up, lol.

i think they're all adorable in a futuristic way. exotic, i guess, more than ugly. some people find exotic ugly, generally speaking. :)
 
It's not bad looking at all, too many cars are way too large still. I just care that it isn't relying entirely on gasoline, that's the important part!!
 
Larinda's got it exactly right. Any portable energy source has to be transferred from another energy source. And you're gonna be basically driving a compressed-air tank. As one of the commenters on that website said, you knock the regulator off a compressed oxygen tank and it shoots through a brick wall. This thing might blow you sky high!

Of course, we're currently driving around on big molotov cocktails. But at least they aren't pressurized.
 
Joe said:
As one of the commenters on that website said, you knock the regulator off a compressed oxygen tank and it shoots through a brick wall. This thing might blow you sky high!
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can't stop giggling at the image... but, dear me...
 
Joe said:
As one of the commenters on that website said, you knock the regulator off a compressed oxygen tank and it shoots through a brick wall. This thing might blow you sky high!
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You might be able to design it to fail in specific directions. A regulator makes a nice cannonball because it's relatively dense. Some sort of blowout panel might not pack as much punch (and could be aimed down at the road or something). I'm also hearing conflicting things about carbon fiber as a tank material - some say it's more dangerous, others that it doesn't make much shrapnel when it fails.

I think the biggest issue is the question of being able to store enough energy for the weight of the system - it's probably a looser compared to batteries, but then the manufacturing is allegedly easier and the waste/disposal issues less worrisome. A lot of the mileage figures seem to come from the hybrid configuration, where you're really just talking about an ultralight underpowered gasoline car cruising along.
 
Eh, I still think it's like the hydrogen-cell car idea. You're just transferring pollution from one source to another. Instead of burning gasoline you're probably burning coal to power the air compressors that "fill" your tank. Which is like the biofuel idea, whether it's biodiesel or ethanol--you have to grow the crops and convert them to fuel somehow, still producing pollution and using energy.
 
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