The New Air-Compressed Car: 200 Km (125 mi) with Just $ 2 (1.5 Euro)

08-01-2008, 12:51 PM

We are in the middle of a dreadful global warming that could melt all the Arctic glaciers by the middle of this century. Humankind is in a struggle to find all kind of technologies reducing the emissions of greenhouse effect gases. And one of the main emitters of these gases are cars. Sun-powered cars would emit no polluting gases at all, but so far this technology has not convinced.

But now, BBC News is signaling that a French company has come with a pollution-free car
functioning on compressed air. The car is produced by India's Tata Motors and, by the end of 2008, it could be bought from Europe and India.

The air-compressed car, known under the name of Mini-CAT or City Cat, would be refueled in just a few minutes from a special air compressor that can be found at the gas stations. A 1.5 Euro fill ($ 2) would allow you to go 200 km (125 mi).
The new car could reach a maximum speed of 70 mph (110 km per hour) and could cost only $7000 (4,750 Euro) !

The car has a body made of fiberglass and it is endowed with an advanced electrical system being totally computer-controlled. The car's motion is determined by the expansion of compressed air. There is no fuel, no burning, no polluting gas emission. The vent gases are completely clean and cool and can be employed in the inner air conditioning system, being just air.

Tata Motors' interest in the air compressed technology is not recent; even since 2000, the company has been producing compressed gas buses. Soon, it could come out on the market with the world's cheapest car, made almost entirely of plastic and coming at a price of $ 2500 (1,700 Euro).

The company has turned into one of the wold's biggest players: in 2004, it bought the Korean Daewoo and, now, it is interested in acquiring Jaguar and Land Rover lines from Ford Motor.

Source:Softpedia

nvidia · 08-01-2008, 01:24 PM

Great!!!!

Thanks for the info

axxo · 08-01-2008, 01:58 PM

i dont think it will come that much cheaper(200km with $2)

Consider the case of LPG which once considered as the future...now the price of which is amost equalled with diesel...

I was refuelling my wagon-r duo a year back with Rs.23 Per litre now Rs33/Litre....

fun2sh · 08-01-2008, 03:09 PM

wow i love green environment. thank for info

New · 08-01-2008, 03:10 PM

Solar energy car will only the solution for those things..No smoke no heat

lywyre · 08-01-2008, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by axxo

i dont think it will come that much cheaper(200km with $2)

Well. The cost pretty much depends upon the prevailing cost for electricity to run the compressor. Thats all is need. Better still, if you get an "onboard" air compressor, that compresses air while you are mobile !.

This was in news more than six months ago and again last month, was included in Readers Digest.

I would be happy to get 200kms at 5$. Thats still very cheap and more importantly, much cleaner.

Quote:

Solar energy car will only the solution for those things..No smoke no heat

As of now, the efficiency of the commercially available solar panels is not economically viable for mass transport systems or passenger cars. Though, IMO, the current efficiency would be enough to satisfy domestic power needs in semi-urban and rural areas.

x3060 · 08-01-2008, 03:52 PM

it will be nice to have one that is clean, especially considering the cost of fuel these days...

zyberboy · 08-01-2008, 04:31 PM

will take long time to become affordable

lywyre · 08-01-2008, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by zyberboy

will take long time to become affordable

Expect it around 6.5 to 7.5 lakhs

praka123 · 08-01-2008, 08:02 PM

6 months back,we have the same news reported in this section

sabret00the · 08-01-2008, 08:09 PM

hmm, this is all good but where we are heading our kids will never know what a Mustang GT500 or a corvette would have ever sounded...

axxo · 11-01-2008, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by axxo

i dont think it will come that much cheaper(200km with $2)

Consider the case of LPG which once considered as the future...now the price of which is amost equalled with diesel...

I was refuelling my wagon-r d
uo a year back with Rs.23 Per litre now Rs33/Litre....

what the f***?? refuelled my car today with LPG Rs.37/litre....

likely soon to catch up with the petrol price...

DONT GO FOR LPG /upgrade