The Air Car Nears Completion

torok writes "According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."

Comments

Pollution

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't releasing all this air into the atmosphere cause pollution?

Expect Greenpeace to shove that argument down everyone's throat since Tata can't pay them off.

Re:Summary is seriously incorrect.

[Hadlock]

if you don't like the fucking spelling errors, you can fix them yourself. top left corner is a link called "firehose". click on that and flag all the stories with errors in them.

Re:When Americans do that, it's "Outsourcing"

[Skye16]

Oh, come on dude. I'm not even anti-french, but even I admit their government manages to throw in the towel anytime the going gets tough. The people, not so much, but like it or not, the government is generally an abstracted view of the people. Hence the reason Americans are despised, even if they don't, individually, subscribe to the foreign policy or general nationalistic arrogance of their more esteemed leaders. It sucks, but c'est la vie, after all.

Re:I'm impressed

[Herby Sagues]

Actually, 1 gallon = 3.78 liters. SInce gas weights substantially less than water (density of about .75), 2.5Kg sounds reasonable (2.8 would be more accurate, but as a rough approximation 2.5 seems OK). You should only correct people when you have a clue.