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[Road Runner]

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What do you reckon?

 

[Tom]

At $5,000, the price is right. No commments in the video on performance without heating the air with gasoline.

 

[Ron]

Good if it works well but the big question is whether the powers to be will ever let it get marketed.

 

[Carl L]

Good if it works well but the big question is whether the powers to be will ever let it get marketed.

Note that there is an industrial backer -- Tata.  They are the Indian version of GMC:  see them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors

They will market the hell out of it.  Compressed air is certainly a lot more available than hydrogen right now. 

 

[rankjo]

Tata (the company who has bought in, as per the video), is a significant builder of gasoline engined cars, and if they are involved, and the car is any good, it is going to come to market, despite "the powers that be".
Maybe this is the "new" Model T.  Too soon to say.
Rankjo

 

[Lowell]

I just don't see how they can get any range out of the air tanks.  I believe DOT in US and Europe don't allow gas/air cylinder pressures above 3000 PSI so even a couple of long tanks in the chassis won't hold much "fuel".  I sure like the idea though.

 

[Wendy]

Bet the PTB (Powers That Be) in the US will find some way to keep it out of this country. Wouldn't want Exxon and friends to have their profits lowered.

 

[utmtman]

Here is another video of the same car but also another one being built and designed in Australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4