Vehicles
Several companies are investigating and producing prototypes, and one plans to offer cars late 2009, early 2010.
Three mechanical engineering students from San Jose State University; Daniel Mekis, Dennis Schaaf and Andrew Merovich, designed and built a bike that runs on compressed air. The total cost of the prototype was under $1000 and was sponsored by Sunshops (on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California) and NO DIG NO RIDE (from Aptos, California.). The top speed of the maiden voyage in May 2009 was 23 mph. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBeky4EuyBc
"Ku:Rin" named air-compressed three-wheeler vehicle is created by TOYOTA in 2011. The speciality about this vehicle is it has registered a record-breaking highest speed 129.2 km/h (80mph) even if it has engine which uses only compressed air. This car was developed by the toyota companies "Dream car workshop". This car is nicknamed as "sleek rocket", or "pencil shaped rocket".
A compressed-air powered motorcycle, called the Green Speed Air Powered Motorcycle was made by Edwin Yi Yuan, based on the Suzuki GP100 and using the Angelo Di Pietro compressed-air engine.
As part of the TV-show Planet Mechanics, Jem Stansfield and Dick Strawbridge have converted a regular scooter to a compressed air moped. This has been done by equipping the scooter with a compressed-air engine and air tank.
MDI makes MultiCATs vehicle that can be used as buses or trucks. RATP has also already expressed an interest in the compressed-air pollution-free bus.
Compressed-air locomotives are a kind of fireless locomotive and have been used in mining and tunnel boring.
Various compressed-air-powered trams were trialled, starting in 1876.
Currently, no water or air vehicles exist that make use of the air engine. Historically certain torpedoes were propelled by compressed-air engines.
Read more about this topic: Compressed-air Vehicle
Famous quotes containing the word vehicles:
“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)