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In 2008, the largest automaker in India announced that it would start producing the first global commercial vehicle to run on nothing but compressed air.
In search of the clean car of choice, we have seen the concept vehicles that run on everything from solar energy to algae, but most are expensive and require difficult to find fuel not he would be nice find a car that ran on something that is abundant and free.
In 2008, the largest automaker in India announced that it would begin production of the first commercial vehicle to run on nothing but compressed air breath of air in the world, that is.
Concept Car Air developed by the French company International Development automotive MDI in partnership with the Indian giant Tata Motors have used compressed air, as opposed to gas explosions and oxygen combustion models, to push the pistons of the engine.
The car was said to reach speeds up to 68 mph with a range of 125 miles between refills, for less than 13 000.
The concept itself is pleasant when your vehicle is low on fuel, you pull into a station to fill it but instead of stopping at the gas pump, you drive to the custom compression unit, insert the nozzle in your tank instead of your tires and fill up on anything, but 2 is clean air.
Unfortunately, the dates of the highly publicized exit Air Car in both Indian and American markets have succeeded without word when the vehicle could actually hit the streets.
In 2009, Tata Motors vice president of engineering, Ravishankar S admitted that the project was facing difficulties in terms of vehicle range and cooling At that time, Ravishankar declined to say whether the company officially called off project, but noted that the engine temperature too low caused by the compressed air is a major problem.
Although Tata version of the zero emission car could never do in commercial production, a more credible version is being developed by a pair of mechanical engineering professors in India.
Bharat Raj Singh and Onkar Singh are much more modest plans for world domination predicted by Tata and MDI, which is why many think they have a chance to succeed in India.
According to Popular Mechanics's plan to replace two scooters in India with an air compression engine that is about three quarters of a foot in diameter in the diagrams of the engine, a tank of fire compressed air in the rooms of a turbine whose shaft is put off center from its housing the impeller blades extend their rotation, which allows the chambers for receiving the volume of air during its expansion and contributes to training.
Unlike the compressed air car, modernized scooters ran off the pressure it takes to fill a tire at the gas station about 60 psi Tata MDI version had 4350 pounds per square inch in its reservoirs , which would require stations to install a new high-tech air pumps, a difficult investment for station owners in a developing country like India.
While Singh and Singh hope to eventually solve technical problems related to the couple and the range for their scooters that currently hold only enough air to travel 18 miles, it could be a while until they can really solve the problem of emissions.
It is important to remember that vehicles running solely on compressed air can seem like an environmental miracle, they still have a carbon footprint.
Companies that manufacture aerial vehicles usually manage to consider the energy required to compress air in their tanks comes from the mains, Lee Schipper, a project scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, told Popular Mechanics in a country like India, which relies heavily on coal-fired plants, the use of thousands of compressed air vehicles would actually increase total emissions sent into the atmosphere.
For now, consumers want a clean, efficient vehicle could be well advised to take into account the many electric powered cars and bikes already on the market.
Beth Buczynski is a freelance journalist and environmental writer in the Rocky Mountain West, specializing in the provision of online content and community management services to companies who want to have a positive impact on our world.
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