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Originally Posted by JW  An interesting thread this.
I remember reading that the thing holding hydrogen cars back was the re-fuelling system. As already mentioned it goes bang pretty easily.
Something I saw about a year ago was an news report about some French bod who had developed a car that would run on compressed air. This was produced via an onboard compressor whe nthe vehicle was plugged into the mains at night. It was supposed to retail around the £2500 mark.
Anyone else heard anything about it? |
is this what you mean :
Air Car Factories - The Air Cars
its an interesting idea but still suffers from loss of energy at the transformation stage - if you have to generate electricty to compress the air you might as well use it directly to power the vehicle.
the other problem is the length of time it takes to recompress a tankfull - great for short journeys but not the best for motorway travel.