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100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the x-prize-fodder dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to Popular Mechanics for word on a New York automaker with plans to introduce a US version of the air-powered car, with which India's Tata Motors made a splash last year. Zero Pollution Motors plans a sub-$18,000, 6-passenger vehicle that can hit 96 mph and gets over 100 MPG, using an untried dual engine — the air-powered motor being supplemented by a second (unspecified) engine that would kick in above 35 MPH. The company estimates that "a vehicle with one tank of air and, say, 8 gallons of either conventional petrol, ethanol, or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles." The vehicle could be introduced to the market as early as 2009.

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  1. Ugh by Eddy+Luten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why do they have to make the friendly cars so damn ugly?

  2. What would it look like - a balloon? by arizwebfoot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet it'll be butt ugly too.

    However, what kind of air? Clean air, high oxygenated air, polluted air?

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