A hybrid system, broadly defined, is any two power sources that combine to provide torque to drive a car's wheels. While most are hybrid-electric--a combustion engine plus one or two electric motors ...

September 15, 2004There is no other motor as efficient as the Di Pietro Rotary Air Engine. It is 100% more efficient than any other air powered engine built to date and its high torque makes it the ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 23, 2013 Comment Now! From the same company that brought us the world’s first diesel-electric hybrid, comes a new concept that does away with the electric component of ...

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have compared the performance of compressed air storage and lead-acid batteries in terms of energy stored per cubic meter, costs, and payback period. They found ...

December 2, 2004 French engineers have designed a low consumption and low pollution engine for urban motoring that runs on compressed air technology. The CATS (Compressed Air Technology System) "air ...

Just in case the electric vehicle revolution never really talks off, India’s Tata Motors is working on what sounds like an even better solution to the world’s clean vehicle quandary: cars that run on ...

Keith Barron from Atlas Copco Compressors advises plant managers to give priority to pressure and flow when specifying compressed air systems in order to optimise performance and energy consumption.

The world was surprised in 2011 when Toyota launched a new air-powered car. This revolutionary car called Ku was to revolutionize the automobile market by doing away with the requirement of fuel or ...

Here’s something only ’90s kids will remember. In 1998, the Air Hogs Sky Shark, a free-flying model airplane powered by compressed air was released. This plane featured foam stabilizers, wings, a ...

The idea of a car being powered by compressed air is nothing new, and while the concept and idea have been around for many years, it was never deemed feasible, and therefor never actually looked over ...

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