Zero Pollution Motors is a U.S. based car import company that plans to bring Air Cars to America! These new clean-cars seem almost too good to be true. Who would have thought we’d have cars powered by compressed air?
According to the website:
To drive the world’s cleanest car is no longer wishful thinking. The Air Car is the first affordable and accessible clean car. It brings us our dream: to drive pollution-free and free of fuel dependency. By Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, the Air Car is classified as a “zero pollution car”, as there are no emissions from the tailpipe.
So how does it work?
Since the Air Car is running exclusively on compressed air, it emits only air – zero pollution. The air expelled from the tail pipe is actually cleaner than the air used to fill the tank. This is because before compression, the air is run through carbon filters to eliminate dirt, dust, humidity, and other urban Air impurities that could hamper the engine’s performance.
Well that’s great, but is it really possible to power a car solely with compressed air? Not quite, says the website.
At speeds over 35mph the Air Car uses small amounts of fuel–either gasoline, propane, ethanol or bio fuels–to heat air inside a heating chamber as it enters the engine. This process produces emissions of only 0.158lbs of CO2 per mile. That is up to 4 times less than the average vehicle and 2 times less than the cleanest vehicle available today. (Toyota Prius 07 Emissions: 0.34 lbs of CO2 per mile. Source: www.hybridcars.com)
That’s still pretty good, though. I’m impressed and amazed that this technology is so close at hand. We’re really at the cutting edge now.
(Thanks to my Twitter feed [and whoever tweeted this] for the lead!)
