And when you run out of compressed air, the car includes a tire pump you can use to refill then tank. Ha-ha-ha. Pack a lunch and tent, you'll be there a while.
The reason combustion vehicle sales are down has nothing to do with alternative vehicles types it's the fact that the big three have over bloated the price of new cars a common car shouldn't cost as much as a house
It's funny how gm trying to take credit for the air engine. Someone already did that and well as most of you know that guy just "mysteriously died" soon after
FACTS : The inventor died of " suicide ? " jumping off the 22nd floor of a motel and landing on the first floor overhang in Thailand BUT " his WIFE wrote his SUICIDE LETTER ! " .
@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Correction : FACTS The 100 m.p.g. carburetor and as well invented in White Bear Lake , Minnesota years ago , men in suits went to the skin inventors house and said to him " give us the carb. or we'll kill your wife and kids " ! It wasn't " bought up " !
So 50 seconds in and I realize that the individuals who put this video together do not realize that an engine an internal combustion engine is just a large air compressor that's all it is
Those people with oxygen cannisters know they are explosion risks, so why a compressed air, oxygen cannister can't be modified to safely power a combustion engine...Meanwhile regenerative breaking can likely be used to restore the compressed air and or pressurization involved.
Here we go again. Mary Barra and GM are making more ludicrous promises that they can not keep. An air engine that is going to change the world. WTH. GM can't even make a normal car with an electric engine now they are talking about a car that uses air for fuel. Give me a break. It's all nonsense.
Well, that’s not true because the air engine has been around since the 80s they’ve been talking about that so a company came up with it in 2004. They just took the idea from somebody else and claimed it as their own.
And the hot air engine was created by an American in the 1800s and American company. Look it up yourself. It was created by knights American. mechanical. In 1874
It is free if you mean as far as harnessing the energy. Then yes, that costs money because you have to get the raw material that is used to make the devices that capture the solar energy. But the energy itself is free.
@@nasheemwhye5197 You're converting non-usable energy into usable energy and that is not free. In fact, it's very expensive. In fact, it's so expensive that you can currently throw away 70% of the thermal energy created by a gasoline engine and still have more power for a given weight.
Really, as the authors seem to have no idea about thermodynamics. Compressing air increases the temperature, and cooling it down causes a lot of energy loss. Expansion will cool the air again and perhaps cause icing in the engine.
Great, until winter hits. Frozen air lines, air tank freezing off due to compression and depression. its a great idea, but what about >-30*C Canadian winters?
Lockheed developed a flywheel engine: spin up a heavy flywheel to incredibly high RPM’s, and use the kinetic energy for power. They gave up on it after a prototype’s flywheel disconnected and went on an über-destructive rampage. 🙈 😱 🚮🎱🥃 ➡
The worst idea of the century: recharge an inefficient accumulator (you know the difference between adiabatic and isothermal cycles) with an inefficient compressor to power an inefficient engine! What a combo!!
Not everything is simply "burned up". Plastics are created as well as a host of other things. You want it to go away? Then life as we know it shuts down.
@@innercynic2784there over 107 other items that depend on fossil fuels…107 more 5:17 reasons to conserve fossil fuels and use other alternative modes for transportation ..yes the electric cars are not the answer to all of the problems …yet they are great for the average city dweller who travel less than 50 miles a day And if we run out of fossil fuels because of combustion engines..we also won’t have the other 107 items we still will need to be made……
@@keithpearson7059 That's one of the most dumbest things I've ever read in a comments section. Oil takes about 60,000,000 years to form. Do you have ANY idea how long that is? LOL!
@@GaryBrewer-h3d yea but the video made it seem like the energy is 100% green whereas the other options were not. This will still pull energy from the grid to compress the air. The same grid that makes the electric vehicles less green.
The best AIRMOTOR is already developed by EngineAir Australia, a redesigned "rotary Wankel airmotor" invented by Angelo Di Pietro. This rotary Wankel airmotor can be used as a wheel-hub airmotor to power 2 wheels or all 4 wheels. It is fully achievable to use new failsafe CFC air pressure tanks, holding 20,000 psi or more, to power a typical sedan up to 1000-mile range per fill-up. GM Cadillac AERA concept car, 2010, L.A. Auto Show, was a luxury concept but cars for everyday use could use this excellent technology just as well. In addition, the "rotary Wankel airmotor" designed by Angelo Di Pietro can also be used to power VTOL Aircraft for similar long range and efficiency.
That's what passenger aircraft runs on. Compressed air. The only fuel is for the APU, takeoff, and landings. That's what passenger aircraft run on. Compressed air. The only fuel is for the APU, takeoff, and landings.
You couldn't pay me to ride in a vehicle on top of a carbon fiber composite tank filled with enough 20,000 psi air to push a car 1000 miles. When that tank eventually fails, it will completely shred the car.
rotary air engine doesn't have friction problems due to the air cushion that creates between mobile parts, in addition doesn't generate heat (the output air is at -10 celsius). the only wearing parts are two ball bearings
Aiyyiyi. Kids, the Steam engine was invented early 1700's 300 years ago........................................ ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Oh boy... First of all, they think compressed air is basically free... Tell that to any industrial shop that uses compressed air for tools. I assure you, running a 60HP screw compressor is nothing close to free. It takes a lot of energy to compress air. Secondly, they seem to actually believe that water engines are a real thing. It's very hard to trust anyone who can't see why running an engine on water is thermodynamically impossible.
It’s kinda like using a firestarter, they make them in glass containers, where you can press the air and then explodes at the end so you can actually start a fire. It’s a piston inside of a like a syringe type thing you can get the idea of making a piston doing that.
As a species, we have to move forward in all areas of technology. I'm not a " climate change " super believer however, we need to move forward. We went from the horse, to the steam engine, to combustion engines. Who says we need to stop advancing? Electric cars aren't really practical so, we should find something else. I'm not saying that this is the answer, but it's out there, somewhere.
I small nuclear pellet can power a submarine for 6 million miles or about 25-30 years. Why can’t that be scaled down and made safe? O I know why. Because that will cut out the fuel or electric companies. They DON’T WANT a solution. They just want to drag this out and make as much money off of it as they can.
Just like hydrogen, the problem is where do you get the fuel or in this case the compressed air? In Britain, there are 16 hydrogen filling stations compared to 3000 for gas and diesel. Is GM going to build thousands of air compressors all over the country where drivers can get compressed air? And how much would it cost to get the compressed air since its obviously not free.
It's silly. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and can be made easily. It's also completely carbon emission free when burned. The biggest problem with hydrogen fuel cells is they are very dangerous in a collision. Diesel is very stabil and will not explode without high atomization and compression. Gasoline, as a liquid, is non-flammable. Only it's vapors are explosive. Hydrogen, on the other hand is highly reactive, which makes it unstable. Here in the states we have some trucks and busses running on the stuff, but for anything smaller than a large truck it would probably be a severe explosive hazard on the freeway. Thus the reason I don't see hydrogen fuel cells being the wave of the future.
it would not cost much to add an air compressor to any gas station much less than hydrogen or electric, I like the idea, and it it safe, air does not burn or pollute
If it was so good, then someone else would do it. Compressed air has been around forever. Nobody has ever made it an effective, mass-producible means of powering a car. Like hydrogen, just less fancy.
I just now heard about this in another video, so I went searching for a better explanation of how it works. It seems fine except for one thing: Where do you get the compressed air? You can't just regenerate it within the car (thermodynamics 101). The answer appears to be, go to a compressed air filling station. OK, except - we are not talking about the kind of compressor you may have in your garage! The required pressure and quantity would need to be MUCH higher to get useful performance. That means a PROFESSIONAL filling station, like a gas station. That in turn, means the same problem we currently have with hydrogen cars. No place to fill up, and years and billions of dollars to fix that problem. That doesn't mean it's impossible - EV's went through the same challenge, and are only now starting to get reasonably good in that regard.
You maybe could use the air compressor you have in your garage - just like you can charge your EV from a 110V outlet. And just like the 110V charging, it would be VERY slow.
As a mechanical engineer, I have been paying attention to this technology for years and the apathy and skepticism it arouses never ceases to surprise me. And I firmly believe that it is part of the solution for sustainable zero-emission mobility. Critical of the researchers is that all the power comes from compressed air, instead of sharing that task with electrostatic storage. The super capacitors would give acceleration to the vehicle through electric motors in the rear wheel drive, and the car would keep rolling with the impulse of compressed air in the front wheel drive. Both forms of propulsion would act on climbs, and both would recover part of the energy when braking. The use of phase change materials is the alternative to improve efficiency. Such a car will be supplied with energy in places where compressing the air supports heat for other processes, such as preheating water, space heating, cooking ovens, swimming pool heating, even pasteurization. So no energy would be lost in air compression for large tanks. All charging at these establishments could be done in three minutes: Charging the bank of supercapacitors, melting paraffin and filling the tanks with air at elevated pressures. And since the air that comes out of the pneumatic motors is cold, it would serve to air condition the passenger cabin. I find this solution feasible, but neither the automotive companies, nor the deputies of the European Union, nor Elon Musk, believe the same.
Although electricity is one of the applications of mechanical science, they want to operate everything with electricity, as electricity is always promoted as something glamorous, because this is in the interest of consumer companies, especially complex electronics ( which they often promote as simple ), as it facilitates control and lack of independence. Our hope is to find effective alternative methods to electricity.
Compressed air engines need energy also, If not, how did the air compress. Same with EV. Where does the Electricity come from? 68.9% of all electricity world wide comes from Oil and Gas. So, the vast majority of EVs are Gas powered with an electric storage instead of a gasoline tank. Additionally modern cars can last 2 MILLION miles. So the C02 is amortized over 2 million miles. EVs are lasting 70,000 miles. This results in each EV costing the environment 8~12 times the C02 per vehicle Manufactured.
What rock have you been hiding under? Tesla EV have easily reached 200,000 miles (daily driver by regular people) with less than 5% battery degradation and minimal standard maintenance. Heavy use EV have reached 1 million miles (yes with 1 battery replacement and 1 motor replaced). All without polluting the air you breathe with cancer and illness causing chemicals. You are welcome! BTW if USA could get their act together renewable sources of electricity could easily reach 50% of grid energy production as is in parts of the EU. Maybe the funding for that would happen when all oil tax breaks are removed.
@@jonnyde Science doesn't agree with your claims. USA has stopped subsidizing Tesla. Now the company is in financial problems. EVs are NOT the solution and sales plummeting.
How do you think that compressed air will be generated? The same way batteries are charged, electricity powered by fossil fuels... There isn't enough energy density with compressed air... You will never see this get implemented let alone beat out EVs and hybrids.
It's not new idea, France try this before. Hybrids ev and compressed air is the next best thing. Small Ev to start the car from stand still and air to maintain speed.
I believe not much was done in this field of science . After all we cannot live without it. We still have to deal with those who don't want any competition.
1 Derived from the 'State Equation' or 'Ideal Gas Law' [PV = nRT], we can extract PV = PE. Potential Energy (Joules) of a compressed Ideal Gas is equal to Pascals Absolute Pressure (P) x Square Meters Volume (V). 2 GM would need to fund high-speed Compressed Air Filling Stations to support their product. 1 US Dry Gallon of Volume is equal to 4.4 Liters, whereas 1 US Wet Gallon of volume is equal to 3.78 Liters. 1 PSI = 6894.76 Pascals. 1 Cubic Foot = 0.0283 Cubic Meters. 3 If let's say a 40 Cubic Foot compressed-air-tank was pressurized to 500 PSIG under an atomospheric pressure of 14.7 PSI, its absolute pressure in Pascals would equal: [(500 + 14.7) x (6894.76)] = 3,548,733 Pascals Absolute Pressure or 3.54 MPaA. 40 Cubic Feet Volume is equal to 1.13 Cubic Meters Volume. 4 Such a compressed-air-tank-charge would equate to a Potential Energy (PE) of: [(3,548,733 PaA) x (1.13 m^3)] = 4,010,068 Joules of Potential Energy. One Joule per second dischaged as Kinetic Energy is equal to 1 Watt of Power. 5 Conservation-of-Energy: Kinetic Energy discharge is equal to the energy required to compress or fill tank, NOT including efficiency losses! Power increases when Kinetic Energy discharge occurs in a SHORTER TIME rather than a LONGER TIME. 6 Assume "GM's Compressed-Air-Filling-Stations" could fill a 40 Cubic Foot compressed air tank to 514.7 PSIA in a time-span of 5 minutes. Note: This is an extremely under-powered compressed air volume & pressure charge used as a 'test-sample'. 5 minutes is equal to 300 seconds. [(4,010,068 Joules) / (300 seconds)] = 13,367 Joules/Sec or 13,367 Watts of Power are required to charge the 40 Cubic Foot compressed-air-tank to an Absolute Pressure of 514.7 PSIA. 7 The typical electrically-powered commercial-grade air compressor has a Compressor-Efficiency of 65%, its AC-Motor is 85% efficient, and AC electrical wiring is 96% efficient. [(13,367 Watts) x (1 / 0.65) x (1 / 0.85) x (1 / 0.96)] = 25,202 Watts Power TOTAL. 8 Five minutes is equal to 0.083 hours. [(25,202 Watts / 1000) x (0.083 Hours)] = 2.1 Kilowatt-Hrs of AC Electrical Power required to charge 4 Mega-Joules of Potential Energy. 2.1 Kw-Hrs @ 15 cent per Kw-Hr or $0.32. Overhead costs will require at least four (4) times more, or $1.28. This translates to: [($1.27 / 4,010,068 Joules) ] = $0.000000317 per Joule of Potential Energy or 3.17E-7 US dollars per Joule of Potential Energy. 9 One US gallon of Gasoline has a Potential Energy of 126.72 Mega-Joules of Potential Energy and costs on average $3.45 per US gallon. This translates to: [($3.45) / (126,7000,000 Joule)] = $0.000000027 per Joule of Potential Energy or 2.72E-8 US dollars per Joule of Potential Energy. 10 [(3.17E-7 US dollar) / (2.72E-8 US dollars)] = 11.65 ===> IT IS ALMOST TWELVE (12) TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE TO COMPRESS AIR INTO A HIGH-PRESSURE TANK COMPARED TO PURCHASING GASOLINE. 11 CONCLUSION: COMPRESSED-AIR-POWERED AUTOMOBILES ARE NOT COST-EFFECTIVE. IT WILL COST 11.65 TIMES MORE TO ENERGIZE A COMPRESSED-AIR-POWERED AUTOMOBILE COMPARED TO A GASOLINE-POWERED AUTOMOBILE.
50 mile range, a high pressure tank susceptible to fracture and explosion in a crash, can't lubricate the motor easily, high revving engine with limited life, and a quarter mile race time measured with a calendar; what's not to like?
Mary Barra is a great example of a tech company CEO not being an engineer - she has set GM on all sorts of wild goose chases trying get a magic game changer for GM.
The glaring lie in this is it's Eco Friendly aspect. How do you think the air got compressed in the first place? It still takes electricity or a fossil fuel compressor to do that task.
The G.M. CEO needs to reimburse EVERY New CAR Customer that G.M. ripped off using "Planned Obsolescence" designs and refusing to comply to the "RIght to Repair" laws.
In a fair, just and honorable world, GM would have continued into bankruptcy back in 2009. We have them billions of our tax $$ which they never repaid and know look where all that money went.
He said that in the video, to which I agree completely. He talked about how they're now using some kind of lubrication system for longevity.... but didn't go into the slightest detail on how THAT specific technology works. I'd definitely be interested.
As long as it runs completely independently of a kill switch. One of the reasons people are giving up on electic cars is because people are realising they can be stopped by authorities with a kill switch.
Like they can't build that into a combustion car. Most combustion cars nowadays have computer control and are connected. Lots of combustion cars already HAVE a kill switch that the lender can turn off if you miss a payment!!!!
Maybe GM should focus on making cars that don't fall apart after warranty expires before making revolutionary engines. They're putting the cart before the horse.
Dilithium crystals will eliminate this nonsense and make everything space travel. Surely everyone agrees that 0 to Warp 8 in 60 seconds is what we want. 😂❤
Hollywood KNEW ahead of time. "dilithium" is their fictional material. Now the world is moving towards running on lithium. Makes you wonder. They predicted the future, sort of.
GM, along with 'Others' forced-India to stop the Production of Compressed-Air-Powered vehicles . They were about to produce thousands of them (Tata air-car ) , it was unveiled in 2012 and would be in-Production fully , by 2020 . They had the motor designed in Germany and the floor of the vehicle was made-up of high-strength plastic-pods containing the air . They had completely developed the vehicles and were in the-process of setting-up production-lines , one benefit was free air-conditioning which occured-naturally and no-emissions other than water . Dave nz
I remember seeing “Beyond 2000”, and saw 1 show were there was 1 guy that got it going and used a Gas powered - air compressor to keep it going for long distance driving.
Probably because it's an inefficiency design. The energy contained in a liter of compressed air is pretty miniscule compaired to a liter fossil fuel. And the power drops off exponentially as the air tank empties. An if you are concerned with the environment, consider how many times that tank has to be filled to get from point "A" to point "B". Do you intend to try and fill it with a manual pump, or will you plug an air compressor into your garage receptacle and use electricity? Gas, electric, it doesn't very much matter because ALL of them require the burning of fossil fuel to produce power.
@@hammerheadms No , they had sorted-it and it had a reasonable-range , you DID have to have it filled at Stations and it would probably be quite-expensive to buy your own two-stage compressor. Like any technology , it would have evolved , GM's engine is much-more sophisticated-looking than Tata's for-instance (but they definitely would have stripped one down to see how it all worked ) Dave nz
Its not a new technique, in 1906 mine locomotive were driven by compressed air. Further more, 24 years ago a french motor engineer invented and patended the technique to decompress air and constructed engines and built a car and established the company MDI.
I like the idea, as a solution to range problems a car could have a compressor powered by anything, electric, gas , hydrogen, making the storage tanks part of the cars structure would save weight, also the stored energy from braking could be used to compress air, making it like an electric hybrid, as far as power, the sky is the limit they could make amazing power for a short time, a vane type engine would be able to turn very high RPMs, less moving parts, my 1/2 inch air drill has a lot of power, just make it 10 times bigger
I remember an inventor creating an air engine powered car many years ago!! He was assassinated and his materials were Stolen by the government!! INTERESTING....
Every combustion engine is an air engine. It just moves air. The more air you move the more power you have. Air is compressed by a cylinder compressing air the releasing it. What compresses the air in your engine to compress the spring. What energy drive it?
SPRINGS inside a cylinder?? Metal fatigue will destroy the engine, springs will break or lose tension. Much better idea is using pressurized air as a spring! That air can be repressurized to restore its springiness.
Compressed air has only disadvantages compared to a battery. And, btw, compressed air use in industry is one of the major energy losses. That's why many companies have changed from pneumatic machinery to electric.
I am all in for GM to kick butt and produce more American jobs and less pollution. Solar is now the cheapest way to produce a kilowatt of energy and every day more solar panels are put on people's houses, etc... So, this car is much greener than a battery powered car and I hope it revolutionizes the car industry. GO GM!!!!!
@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc solar is the cheapest over the lifespan of the investment however storage of the energy during off peak is still an issue. Many companies are competing on technologies for storage and that price is dropping steadily. IF one does not care about CO2 levels increasing and the super storms they produce along with the massive property damage which for now heavy carbon emitting industries have gotten away not paying than drill baby drill. Take fracking for example millions of gallons of fresh water are permanently pumped into the ground making it unavailable for farming... and full of toxic chemicals. This ends up hurting individuals and society and they have gotten away with it. Dirty energy externalities have been passed on to the general public. Your credibility is lost if you don't care about the dirty energy externalities... btw I am off grid and produce ALL my own energy so when I buy a compressor car I will be driving and not polluting like gasoline and diesel vehicles. Electric battery cars produce too much pollution getting the batteries out of the earth.
The problem with running on compressed air is the government will want to tax us on the air !!! The same air we breathe . Don’t give them any ideas !!!!!
A hybrid car with a gas engine and compressed air makes sense. The engine would serve as a compressor to refill the air tanks going down hills, as the electric motor in an EV hybrid is used to charge the battery going down hill.
I could see a compressed air and internal combustion hybrid working out well. Like something where you force pressurized air into the chamber with fuel to yield more power with less fuel. We could call it a turbocharger or maybe a supercharger. Joking aside. Hydrogen combustion engines are the future. Solves everyone's problems we just need to scale up separating and storing free hydrogen. Nothing will have 0 environmental impact. But a hydrogen engine from start to finish would be much better than EVs or ICEVs
Even years ago with these err engines, they tried over in India and other places they still required oil for the engine. What’s being used to lubricate the engine and it’s still required and alternative fuel in addition to air compression. So what’s being used here?
And what energy source and machinery will compress the air? You have not answered the question.
Exactly, I have an electric compressor…
Steam..coal gas..wood..air…
Obviously electric powered compressor at fuelling stations. Like many other pneumatic equipment the source is compressed air from a compressor.
Electric compressors are not emission free. They consume large amounts of electricity to operate
He did say hybrid, so im guessing the hybrid powers the compressor
Someone scammed GM, or GM is trying to scam you. This is nonsense.
And when you run out of compressed air, the car includes a tire pump you can use to refill then tank. Ha-ha-ha. Pack a lunch and tent, you'll be there a while.
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The reason combustion vehicle sales are down has nothing to do with alternative vehicles types it's the fact that the big three have over bloated the price of new cars a common car shouldn't cost as much as a house
It's funny how gm trying to take credit for the air engine. Someone already did that and well as most of you know that guy just "mysteriously died" soon after
FACTS : The inventor died of " suicide ? " jumping off the 22nd floor of a motel and landing on the first floor overhang in Thailand BUT " his WIFE wrote his SUICIDE LETTER ! " .
Like the 100mpg carby. Bought up and buried.
I thought that was the maker of the hydrogen powered car??
@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Correction : FACTS The 100 m.p.g. carburetor and as well invented in White Bear Lake , Minnesota years ago , men in suits went to the skin inventors house and said to him " give us the carb. or we'll kill your wife and kids " ! It wasn't " bought up " !
(puts on my expert suit) Ahh it's but a filthy conspiracy, the man obviously just commit the side
So 50 seconds in and I realize that the individuals who put this video together do not realize that an engine an internal combustion engine is just a large air compressor that's all it is
2:20
Those people with oxygen cannisters know they are explosion risks, so why a compressed air, oxygen cannister can't be modified to safely power a combustion engine...Meanwhile regenerative breaking can likely be used to restore the compressed air and or pressurization involved.
Combustion engines compress a mixture of fuel and air and ignites it with electricity. Not even close to an air compressor.
And it will still require something to power the compressor
@@MagnusFabrication Yeah, they do compress air, but that isn't the same as being their main purpose or function.
Here we go again. Mary Barra and GM are making more ludicrous promises that they can not keep. An air engine that is going to change the world. WTH. GM can't even make a normal car with an electric engine now they are talking about a car that uses air for fuel. Give me a break. It's all nonsense.
This channel is the liar, the scammer, the click-baiter.
It’s not nonsense nonbeliever!
Just strap you bed sheet to a couple sticks on the roof and wahla air power
They literally have electric vehicles what are you talking about. 😂
Do you not understand how pistons move?
A French company came up with this idea in 2004. Moteur Development International. It had a 110 KM/H top speed and a range of 200 Kilometer.
Franchise, not American 🎉Think why?!!!!’n
Well, that’s not true because the air engine has been around since the 80s they’ve been talking about that so a company came up with it in 2004. They just took the idea from somebody else and claimed it as their own.
And the hot air engine was created by an American in the 1800s and American company. Look it up yourself. It was created by knights American. mechanical. In 1874
one guy in Australia developed a high efficient air motor as well
@@Paul-ng4jx Completely different design from the French Air engine. The Amonton (1699) predates the Knights American hot air engine.
That's like saying energy from solar and wind is free. IT'S NOT.
It is free if you mean as far as harnessing the energy. Then yes, that costs money because you have to get the raw material that is used to make the devices that capture the solar energy. But the energy itself is free.
@@nasheemwhye5197 You're converting non-usable energy into usable energy and that is not free. In fact, it's very expensive. In fact, it's so expensive that you can currently throw away 70% of the thermal energy created by a gasoline engine and still have more power for a given weight.
@@nasheemwhye5197 That's the point nothing is free especially green energy.
Or calling it green
HOW IS RENEWABLE ENERGY, NOT FREE?
Oh boy. Wait till the Amish hear about this.
lol
Their mule pulled buggies replaced by a compressed air engine....Yeah, they'll probably go for that!
This video sounds like a lot of hot air to me.🤔
Really, as the authors seem to have no idea about thermodynamics. Compressing air increases the temperature, and cooling it down causes a lot of energy loss. Expansion will cool the air again and perhaps cause icing in the engine.
Icing used for the A/C@@gottfriedheumesser1994
In the meantime Tesla is building the Roadster with cold thrusters from its spacecrafts.
Sooo, exhaust???
@@gottfriedheumesser1994this video was most likely generated by AI and wasn’t screened for accuracy before upload
Great, until winter hits. Frozen air lines, air tank freezing off due to compression and depression. its a great idea, but what about >-30*C Canadian winters?
Live somewhere else! I can not imagine 30c below I live in OZ we have a moat around our country to keep others out Australia
Nothing is free everything cost , for every action is a reaction.
Air cost yo sir up your tiers
Heat.
Lockheed developed a flywheel engine: spin up a heavy flywheel to incredibly high RPM’s, and use the kinetic energy for power. They gave up on it after a prototype’s flywheel disconnected and went on an über-destructive rampage.
🙈 😱 🚮🎱🥃 ➡
While this video is overzealous in stating there would be no pollution, it has the potential of being more efficient. Co
This video just cost you 12 minutes you will never get back. 12 minutes of foolishness.
The worst idea of the century: recharge an inefficient accumulator (you know the difference between adiabatic and isothermal cycles) with an inefficient compressor to power an inefficient engine! What a combo!!
The driver must eat a ton of chickpeas and cabbage the day before.
And beans will chilli sauce with garlic 😂
The driver must eat beans in chilli sauce with garlic one hour before starting 😂
Taco Bell fill up station ⛽
Every day
Chilli & Garlik Baked Beans with Fried Eggs, sunny side up, soft yoke.
Looks like the balloon-powered cars we made in preschool were the answer all along. Maybe spitwads will be the cure for cancer
you gain some you lose some, laws of thermodynamics, nothing is 100% efficient.
I’ll wait for the new GM car that runs on rainbows, fairy dust and cookie sprinkles.
Ha, ha, ha....so true. Their DEI CEO really sucks.
You forgot the engine that runs on unicorn droppings.
@@d.g.566 - Unicorn poo engines meets the diversity and inclusion policy of the Biden Admin and will likely award another $2.5 billion to GM.
And unicorn farts
They already have that car. They call it "The Newsome". It's only available in CA.
It's quite the challenge to reach oil free, the world goes through almost a billion barrels of oil a day,
Not everything is simply "burned up". Plastics are created as well as a host of other things. You want it to go away? Then life as we know it shuts down.
@@TheSpiral01 FACT : Underground oil replenishes itself !
@@innercynic2784there over 107 other items that depend on fossil fuels…107 more 5:17 reasons to conserve fossil fuels and use other alternative modes for transportation ..yes the electric cars are not the answer to all of the problems …yet they are great for the average city dweller who travel less than 50 miles a day
And if we run out of fossil fuels because of combustion engines..we also won’t have the other 107 items we still will need to be made……
@@keithpearson7059 That's one of the most dumbest things I've ever read in a comments section. Oil takes about 60,000,000 years to form. Do you have ANY idea how long that is? LOL!
@@keithpearson7059 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
he air just compresses itself? AMAZING !! This will have a range of about 2 miles.
Depends on many factors, size and pressure in the tank being #1.
@@GaryBrewer-h3d yea but the video made it seem like the energy is 100% green whereas the other options were not. This will still pull energy from the grid to compress the air. The same grid that makes the electric vehicles less green.
Each car comes with a complimentary bicycle pump... 🙂
If GM is involved, it’s either a lie or a flop.
This channel is the liar, the scammer, the click-baiter.
Both
ya.. like using liquid air..
What ? Do you mean that the air does not compress spontaneously before arriving in the tank?
Stolen technology from approximately 2014 ? 🤬🤬
20 years ago MDI presented the Eolo car, based on the same technology, but failed to make an impact.
The best AIRMOTOR is already developed by EngineAir Australia, a redesigned "rotary Wankel airmotor" invented by Angelo Di Pietro. This rotary Wankel airmotor can be used as a wheel-hub airmotor to power 2 wheels or all 4 wheels. It is fully achievable to use new failsafe CFC air pressure tanks, holding 20,000 psi or more, to power a typical sedan up to 1000-mile range per fill-up. GM Cadillac AERA concept car, 2010, L.A. Auto Show, was a luxury concept but cars for everyday use could use this excellent technology just as well. In addition, the "rotary Wankel airmotor" designed by Angelo Di Pietro can also be used to power VTOL Aircraft for similar long range and efficiency.
LOL
Notice how few people have ever heard of it?
That's what passenger aircraft runs on. Compressed air. The only fuel is for the APU, takeoff, and landings. That's what passenger aircraft
run on. Compressed air. The only fuel is for the APU, takeoff, and landings.
You couldn't pay me to ride in a vehicle on top of a carbon fiber composite tank filled with enough 20,000 psi air to push a car 1000 miles. When that tank eventually fails, it will completely shred the car.
@@sevenhill54 you have ever heard of jet fuel.
they had this for years now but the big oil companies didnt want to put it out on the market
Will still need oil to keep the parts lubed up if not it will cease up 🤷
Perhaps there are green options for lubricants we've yet to explore.
rotary air engine doesn't have friction problems due to the air cushion that creates between mobile parts, in addition doesn't generate heat (the output air is at -10 celsius). the only wearing parts are two ball bearings
And?
Use the oil from your corn and soybeans,since your wife decided to go keto....🤷
It's mostly about the ball bearings.
interesting this is showing up now. This tech is ONLY LIKE 100 years old at this point. SMH.
Liquid air would combat some of issues simply use tanks for high pressure, and a gasifier at engine to fix some of these problems
Aiyyiyi. Kids, the Steam engine was invented early 1700's 300 years ago........................................ ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Oh boy... First of all, they think compressed air is basically free... Tell that to any industrial shop that uses compressed air for tools. I assure you, running a 60HP screw compressor is nothing close to free. It takes a lot of energy to compress air. Secondly, they seem to actually believe that water engines are a real thing. It's very hard to trust anyone who can't see why running an engine on water is thermodynamically impossible.
It is possible if we have fusion tech
What else would you expect from an oil company? This sort of thing has gone for over a century.
It’s kinda like using a firestarter, they make them in glass containers, where you can press the air and then explodes at the end so you can actually start a fire. It’s a piston inside of a like a syringe type thing you can get the idea of making a piston doing that.
As a species, we have to move forward in all areas of technology. I'm not a " climate change " super believer however, we need to move forward. We went from the horse, to the steam engine, to combustion engines. Who says we need to stop advancing? Electric cars aren't really practical so, we should find something else. I'm not saying that this is the answer, but it's out there, somewhere.
100% correct !
Anti-gravity drive.
I small nuclear pellet can power a submarine for 6 million miles or about 25-30 years. Why can’t that be scaled down and made safe? O I know why. Because that will cut out the fuel or electric companies. They DON’T WANT a solution. They just want to drag this out and make as much money off of it as they can.
Life is short enough that I’m good with keeping what we have for the remainder of it. Things are good enough for me.
@@boingaon Lake Mead is dying. Most of it dried up. We need to be green.
Does it run off the hot air coming from GM’s CEO? She seems to be able to provide an inexhaustible supply of
Was searching for this very comment....👍🍻
Just like hydrogen, the problem is where do you get the fuel or in this case the compressed air? In Britain, there are 16 hydrogen filling stations compared to 3000 for gas and diesel. Is GM going to build thousands of air compressors all over the country where drivers can get compressed air? And how much would it cost to get the compressed air since its obviously not free.
It's silly. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and can be made easily. It's also completely carbon emission free when burned. The biggest problem with hydrogen fuel cells is they are very dangerous in a collision. Diesel is very stabil and will not explode without high atomization and compression. Gasoline, as a liquid, is non-flammable. Only it's vapors are explosive. Hydrogen, on the other hand is highly reactive, which makes it unstable. Here in the states we have some trucks and busses running on the stuff, but for anything smaller than a large truck it would probably be a severe explosive hazard on the freeway. Thus the reason I don't see hydrogen fuel cells being the wave of the future.
it would not cost much to add an air compressor to any gas station much less than hydrogen or electric, I like the idea, and it it safe, air does not burn or pollute
@@jimsix9929 since gas station already have air compressors...
Do they only have diesel & gas (LPG), what about Petroleum?
@@mignemi88 yes they do but to run a car you need real high pressure, like 7,000 psi the 120 psi compressors for tires would not take you far
What makes electricity to run the air compressor? A coal or petroleum burning power plant?
Mechanical energy from a windmill can be used to compress air.
The question is: WHEN? Some inventors tried to do something but greedy companies,people …eliminate them in some form from developing their ideas.
If it was so good, then someone else would do it.
Compressed air has been around forever. Nobody has ever made it an effective, mass-producible means of powering a car.
Like hydrogen, just less fancy.
WOW amazing TY so much ,,Keep up the great work
Also, can you develop air recharging breaking?
I just now heard about this in another video, so I went searching for a better explanation of how it works. It seems fine except for one thing:
Where do you get the compressed air? You can't just regenerate it within the car (thermodynamics 101).
The answer appears to be, go to a compressed air filling station. OK, except - we are not talking about the kind of compressor you may have in your garage! The required pressure and quantity would need to be MUCH higher to get useful performance. That means a PROFESSIONAL filling station, like a gas station.
That in turn, means the same problem we currently have with hydrogen cars. No place to fill up, and years and billions of dollars to fix that problem. That doesn't mean it's impossible - EV's went through the same challenge, and are only now starting to get reasonably good in that regard.
You maybe could use the air compressor you have in your garage - just like you can charge your EV from a 110V outlet. And just like the 110V charging, it would be VERY slow.
A MAN CAME OUT WITH A CAR THAT RUN'S ON WATER, NOW BEAT THAT.
They killed him... I read that he didn't divulge the water electrolysis process he used. And it used lots of energy to convert.
And what happened to him? I imagine the big oil companies unalived him!
@@brucedale4465 Maybe he was working for Putin at the FSB at the time?
If you ad a device to add the air into a holding tank to later be sent to the compression system it could then run forever without need to refuel.
Taxi cabs in India have been using compressed air for a decade. Now GM is acting like they just invented it. Get real.
The French have air driven taxi's.
where does the energy to compress the air come from?
Energy will be required to compress the air in the first place. What will produce this energy?
And where do you get the energy to compress the air
amazing free air...what a crock
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As a mechanical engineer, I have been paying attention to this technology for years and the apathy and skepticism it arouses never ceases to surprise me. And I firmly believe that it is part of the solution for sustainable zero-emission mobility. Critical of the researchers is that all the power comes from compressed air, instead of sharing that task with electrostatic storage. The super capacitors would give acceleration to the vehicle through electric motors in the rear wheel drive, and the car would keep rolling with the impulse of compressed air in the front wheel drive. Both forms of propulsion would act on climbs, and both would recover part of the energy when braking. The use of phase change materials is the alternative to improve efficiency. Such a car will be supplied with energy in places where compressing the air supports heat for other processes, such as preheating water, space heating, cooking ovens, swimming pool heating, even pasteurization. So no energy would be lost in air compression for large tanks. All charging at these establishments could be done in three minutes: Charging the bank of supercapacitors, melting paraffin and filling the tanks with air at elevated pressures. And since the air that comes out of the pneumatic motors is cold, it would serve to air condition the passenger cabin. I find this solution feasible, but neither the automotive companies, nor the deputies of the European Union, nor Elon Musk, believe the same.
Although electricity is one of the applications of mechanical science, they want to operate everything with electricity, as electricity is always promoted as something glamorous, because this is in the interest of consumer companies, especially complex electronics ( which they often promote as simple ), as it facilitates control and lack of independence. Our hope is to find effective alternative methods to electricity.
Compressed air engines need energy also, If not, how did the air compress. Same with EV. Where does the Electricity come from? 68.9% of all electricity world wide comes from Oil and Gas. So, the vast majority of EVs are Gas powered with an electric storage instead of a gasoline tank. Additionally modern cars can last 2 MILLION miles. So the C02 is amortized over 2 million miles. EVs are lasting 70,000 miles. This results in each EV costing the environment 8~12 times the C02 per vehicle Manufactured.
What rock have you been hiding under? Tesla EV have easily reached 200,000 miles (daily driver by regular people) with less than 5% battery degradation and minimal standard maintenance. Heavy use EV have reached 1 million miles (yes with 1 battery replacement and 1 motor replaced). All without polluting the air you breathe with cancer and illness causing chemicals. You are welcome!
BTW if USA could get their act together renewable sources of electricity could easily reach 50% of grid energy production as is in parts of the EU. Maybe the funding for that would happen when all oil tax breaks are removed.
@@jonnyde Science doesn't agree with your claims. USA has stopped subsidizing Tesla. Now the company is in financial problems.
EVs are NOT the solution and sales plummeting.
Shush! We are all holding hands and singing Koombya! The world is saved - Mary Barra said so!
How do you think that compressed air will be generated? The same way batteries are charged, electricity powered by fossil fuels...
There isn't enough energy density with compressed air...
You will never see this get implemented let alone beat out EVs and hybrids.
It's not new idea, France try this before.
Hybrids ev and compressed air is the next best thing. Small Ev to start the car from stand still and air to maintain speed.
Just make an engine that slams atoms together, lol.. maybe even one that runs on photons. XD
I believe not much was done in this field of science . After all we cannot live without it. We still have to deal with those who don't want any competition.
1 Derived from the 'State Equation' or 'Ideal Gas Law' [PV = nRT], we can extract PV = PE. Potential Energy (Joules) of a compressed Ideal Gas is equal to Pascals Absolute Pressure (P) x Square Meters Volume (V).
2 GM would need to fund high-speed Compressed Air Filling Stations to support their product. 1 US Dry Gallon of Volume is equal to 4.4 Liters, whereas 1 US Wet Gallon of volume is equal to 3.78 Liters. 1 PSI = 6894.76 Pascals. 1 Cubic Foot = 0.0283 Cubic Meters.
3 If let's say a 40 Cubic Foot compressed-air-tank was pressurized to 500 PSIG under an atomospheric pressure of 14.7 PSI, its absolute pressure in Pascals would equal: [(500 + 14.7) x (6894.76)] = 3,548,733 Pascals Absolute Pressure or 3.54 MPaA. 40 Cubic Feet Volume is equal to 1.13 Cubic Meters Volume.
4 Such a compressed-air-tank-charge would equate to a Potential Energy (PE) of: [(3,548,733 PaA) x (1.13 m^3)] = 4,010,068 Joules of Potential Energy. One Joule per second dischaged as Kinetic Energy is equal to 1 Watt of Power.
5 Conservation-of-Energy: Kinetic Energy discharge is equal to the energy required to compress or fill tank, NOT including efficiency losses! Power increases when Kinetic Energy discharge occurs in a SHORTER TIME rather than a LONGER TIME.
6 Assume "GM's Compressed-Air-Filling-Stations" could fill a 40 Cubic Foot compressed air tank to 514.7 PSIA in a time-span of 5 minutes. Note: This is an extremely under-powered compressed air volume & pressure charge used as a 'test-sample'. 5 minutes is equal to 300 seconds. [(4,010,068 Joules) / (300 seconds)] = 13,367 Joules/Sec or 13,367 Watts of Power are required to charge the 40 Cubic Foot compressed-air-tank to an Absolute Pressure of 514.7 PSIA.
7 The typical electrically-powered commercial-grade air compressor has a Compressor-Efficiency of 65%, its AC-Motor is 85% efficient, and AC electrical wiring is 96% efficient. [(13,367 Watts) x (1 / 0.65) x (1 / 0.85) x (1 / 0.96)] = 25,202 Watts Power TOTAL.
8 Five minutes is equal to 0.083 hours. [(25,202 Watts / 1000) x (0.083 Hours)] = 2.1 Kilowatt-Hrs of AC Electrical Power required to charge 4 Mega-Joules of Potential Energy. 2.1 Kw-Hrs @ 15 cent per Kw-Hr or $0.32. Overhead costs will require at least four (4) times more, or $1.28. This translates to: [($1.27 / 4,010,068 Joules) ] = $0.000000317 per Joule of Potential Energy or 3.17E-7 US dollars per Joule of Potential Energy.
9 One US gallon of Gasoline has a Potential Energy of 126.72 Mega-Joules of Potential Energy and costs on average $3.45 per US gallon. This translates to: [($3.45) / (126,7000,000 Joule)] = $0.000000027 per Joule of Potential Energy or 2.72E-8 US dollars per Joule of Potential Energy.
10 [(3.17E-7 US dollar) / (2.72E-8 US dollars)] = 11.65 ===> IT IS ALMOST TWELVE (12) TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE TO COMPRESS AIR INTO A HIGH-PRESSURE TANK COMPARED TO PURCHASING GASOLINE.
11 CONCLUSION: COMPRESSED-AIR-POWERED AUTOMOBILES ARE NOT COST-EFFECTIVE. IT WILL COST 11.65 TIMES MORE TO ENERGIZE A COMPRESSED-AIR-POWERED AUTOMOBILE COMPARED TO A GASOLINE-POWERED AUTOMOBILE.
We are working on it 🙂 0:30
50 mile range, a high pressure tank susceptible to fracture and explosion in a crash, can't lubricate the motor easily, high revving engine with limited life, and a quarter mile race time measured with a calendar; what's not to like?
Drive that thing way up high in the mountains xD
Mary Barra is a great example of a tech company CEO not being an engineer - she has set GM on all sorts of wild goose chases trying get a magic game changer for GM.
But.....D needed more E and I.
My browser has a "NO SOLICITING" sign for a reason.
I don't get it what compresses the air into the engine piston? With what type of energy?
The up and down movement of your foot
The glaring lie in this is it's Eco Friendly aspect. How do you think the air got compressed in the first place? It still takes electricity or a fossil fuel compressor to do that task.
And in such a dense state needed. This, just like wind and solar fails
They were right! We are going to be paying for air now! Better get them farts out now everyone.
The G.M. CEO needs to reimburse EVERY New CAR Customer that G.M. ripped off using "Planned Obsolescence" designs and refusing to comply to the "RIght to Repair" laws.
gM-yikes,can’t be trusted at all
In a fair, just and honorable world, GM would have continued into bankruptcy back in 2009. We have them billions of our tax $$ which they never repaid and know look where all that money went.
compressing air for propulsion will use more electricity then charging ev batteries. also the air tank size for any type of range would be ridiculous
Air gets really hot when it's compressed; literally & figuratively.
He said that in the video, to which I agree completely. He talked about how they're now using some kind of lubrication system for longevity.... but didn't go into the slightest detail on how THAT specific technology works. I'd definitely be interested.
Internal combustion is a type of compressed air engine! And the reason we have so many is it works really well.
When I was a kid, my uncle described a similar concept to me. I didn't think it was possible back then.
And?
To compress air you need an energy source, just like charging elecric vehicals does.
As long as it runs completely independently of a kill switch. One of the reasons people are giving up on electic cars is because people are realising they can be stopped by authorities with a kill switch.
Like they can't build that into a combustion car. Most combustion cars nowadays have computer control and are connected. Lots of combustion cars already HAVE a kill switch that the lender can turn off if you miss a payment!!!!
Maybe GM should focus on making cars that don't fall apart after warranty expires before making revolutionary engines. They're putting the cart before the horse.
Dilithium crystals will eliminate this nonsense and make everything space travel. Surely everyone agrees that 0 to Warp 8 in 60 seconds is what we want. 😂❤
Hollywood KNEW ahead of time. "dilithium" is their fictional material. Now the world is moving towards running on lithium. Makes you wonder. They predicted the future, sort of.
Sounds great but unless I have a lot of politicians full of hot air how do I compress the air to fill the tank?
GM, along with 'Others' forced-India to stop the Production of Compressed-Air-Powered vehicles . They were about to produce thousands of them (Tata air-car ) , it was unveiled in 2012 and would be in-Production fully , by 2020 . They had the motor designed in Germany and the floor of the vehicle was made-up of high-strength plastic-pods containing the air . They had completely developed the vehicles and were in the-process of setting-up production-lines , one benefit was free air-conditioning which occured-naturally and no-emissions other than water . Dave nz
And nobody give a comment about tata air-car?!! This is very strange!!
I remember seeing “Beyond 2000”, and saw 1 show were there was 1 guy that got it going and used a Gas powered - air compressor to keep it going for long distance driving.
Probably because it's an inefficiency design. The energy contained in a liter of compressed air is pretty miniscule compaired to a liter fossil fuel. And the power drops off exponentially as the air tank empties. An if you are concerned with the environment, consider how many times that tank has to be filled to get from point "A" to point "B". Do you intend to try and fill it with a manual pump, or will you plug an air compressor into your garage receptacle and use electricity? Gas, electric, it doesn't very much matter because ALL of them require the burning of fossil fuel to produce power.
@@hammerheadms No , they had sorted-it and it had a reasonable-range , you DID have to have it filled at Stations and it would probably be quite-expensive to buy your own two-stage compressor. Like any technology , it would have evolved , GM's engine is much-more sophisticated-looking than Tata's for-instance (but they definitely would have stripped one down to see how it all worked ) Dave nz
@@hammerheadms People need to know the difference between an energy SOURCE and energy STORAGE!!!!!
"It's just air." Yeah, how did it get compressed genius.
april fools!
Its not a new technique, in 1906 mine locomotive were driven by compressed air.
Further more, 24 years ago a french motor engineer invented and patended the technique to decompress air and constructed engines and built a car and established the company MDI.
I like the idea, as a solution to range problems a car could have a compressor powered by anything, electric, gas , hydrogen, making the storage tanks part of the cars structure would save weight, also the stored energy from braking could be used to compress air, making it like an electric hybrid, as far as power, the sky is the limit they could make amazing power for a short time, a vane type engine would be able to turn very high RPMs, less moving parts, my 1/2 inch air drill has a lot of power, just make it 10 times bigger
excellent. Just the “less moving parts” part is consumable and redundant.
Compressed air loses the copious amount of water it contains when decompressed, where does that water go?
recycled water pressure of course!
I remember an inventor creating an air engine powered car many years ago!! He was assassinated and his materials were Stolen by the government!! INTERESTING....
Literally came to the comments to find someone mentioning this
It was Stan Meyer and it was actually water, or more specifically, the hydrogen split off out of the H2O emitting only pure water!
@@bradgreenfield3003 Takes as much to split water as you get by recombining it. Splitting water is HARD
Every combustion engine is an air engine. It just moves air. The more air you move the more power you have. Air is compressed by a cylinder compressing air the releasing it.
What compresses the air in your engine to compress the spring. What energy drive it?
SPRINGS inside a cylinder?? Metal fatigue will destroy the engine, springs will break or lose tension. Much better idea is using pressurized air as a spring!
That air can be repressurized to restore its springiness.
How about trying to get your CURRENT vehicles to run properly FIRST?
Basic thermodynamics says no available energy. No free lunch.
Compressed air has only disadvantages compared to a battery. And, btw, compressed air use in industry is one of the major energy losses. That's why many companies have changed from pneumatic machinery to electric.
Bingo.
It's just "preasured up air" 3:13 wtf is that? Lmfao
Honestly these car companies need to stop piling cars up in lots. Wasting resources and creating more waste
Will the parts still need to be oiled
Sure, any mechanical moving gear requires that.
You still need fuel to work the compressor so I can't see there being much advantage.
So where does the energy come from to compress the air. Coal, gas, oil, nuclear ?
I am all in for GM to kick butt and produce more American jobs and less pollution. Solar is now the cheapest way to produce a kilowatt of energy and every day more solar panels are put on people's houses, etc... So, this car is much greener than a battery powered car and I hope it revolutionizes the car industry. GO GM!!!!!
You lost all credibility with "Solar is now the cheapest way to produce a kilowatt of energy...". "Cheapest" 🤣
@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc solar is the cheapest over the lifespan of the investment however storage of the energy during off peak is still an issue. Many companies are competing on technologies for storage and that price is dropping steadily. IF one does not care about CO2 levels increasing and the super storms they produce along with the massive property damage
which for now heavy carbon emitting industries have gotten away not paying than drill baby drill. Take fracking for example millions of gallons of fresh water are permanently pumped into the ground making it unavailable for farming... and full of toxic chemicals. This ends up hurting individuals and society and they have gotten away with it. Dirty energy externalities have been passed on to the general public. Your credibility is lost if you don't care about the dirty energy externalities... btw I am off grid and produce ALL my own energy so when I buy a compressor car I will be driving and not polluting like gasoline and diesel vehicles.
Electric battery cars produce too much pollution getting the batteries out of the earth.
Is there a way to re-compress the exhaust or add a compressor unit for direct recharging and range extension?
How about combining the Ammomia engine prototype with compressed air tech?
GM has been so ass backwards since the early 90s. They had a electric car in the 90s and scrapped it. Scrapped their best selling line, Pontiac.
In Holland there is a company that rebuilds the motor of existing motors, thats much cheaper than a new one like this and more ecofriendly
It just inserts another step in the process of using what we already have.
The problem with running on compressed air is the government will want to tax us on the air !!! The same air we breathe . Don’t give them any ideas !!!!!
A hybrid car with a gas engine and compressed air makes sense. The engine would serve as a compressor to refill the air tanks going down hills, as the electric motor in an EV hybrid is used to charge the battery going down hill.
I could see a compressed air and internal combustion hybrid working out well. Like something where you force pressurized air into the chamber with fuel to yield more power with less fuel. We could call it a turbocharger or maybe a supercharger.
Joking aside. Hydrogen combustion engines are the future. Solves everyone's problems we just need to scale up separating and storing free hydrogen. Nothing will have 0 environmental impact. But a hydrogen engine from start to finish would be much better than EVs or ICEVs
What energy do you use to compress the air? As with all energy you lose energy when you change it from one to another.
😅should be popular with politicians considering all the hot air on hand. 😅
Even years ago with these err engines, they tried over in India and other places they still required oil for the engine. What’s being used to lubricate the engine and it’s still required and alternative fuel in addition to air compression. So what’s being used here?
Whichs dealer ships sales (air engine's) for cheap prices???