Compressed-air Vehicle - Advantages

Advantages

Compressed-air vehicles are comparable in many ways to electric vehicles, but use compressed air to store the energy instead of batteries. Their potential advantages over other vehicles include:

• Much like electrical vehicles, air powered vehicles would ultimately be powered through the electrical grid. Which makes it easier to focus on reducing pollution from one source, as opposed to the millions of vehicles on the road.
• Transportation of the fuel would not be required due to drawing power off the electrical grid. This presents significant cost benefits. Pollution created during fuel transportation would be eliminated.
• Compressed-air technology reduces the cost of vehicle production by about 20%, because there is no need to build a cooling system, fuel tank, Ignition Systems or silencers.
• The engine can be massively reduced in size.
• The engine runs on cold or warm air, so can be made of lower strength light weight material such as aluminium, plastic, low friction teflon or a combination.
• Low manufacture and maintenance costs as well as easy maintenance.
• Compressed-air tanks can be disposed of or recycled with less pollution than batteries.
• Compressed-air vehicles are unconstrained by the degradation problems associated with current battery systems.
• The air tank may be refilled more often and in less time than batteries can be recharged, with re-filling rates comparable to liquid fuels.
• Lighter vehicles cause less damage to roads, resulting in lower maintenance cost.
• The price of filling air powered vehicles is significantly cheaper than petrol, diesel or biofuel. If electricity is cheap, then compressing air will also be relatively cheap.