What's keeping compressed air cars off the market?

[AMonger]

When compressed air-powered vehicles were being developed in Europe, I thought, "Fantastic!" But then I read that to make a car run on compressed air, it has to be kept small and light, and small and light won't meet American safety standards for crashes. Can't one just use a bigger compressor and bigger air tank to power a heavier vehicle? I heard of them several years ago. You'd think enough time would have passed to get these things on the road.

 

[bubblehead]

Good timing! This one can be an Expedite CV YouTube - Air Car by Guy Negre on CNN

 

[layoutshooter]

Not very practical and just polluting as any other car. You have to use electricity to run the compressors to compress the air. It should use the same amount of "BTU's" to move that car as any other car. All this does, as with all electric cars, is change the point of the pollution.

 

[ebsprintin]

To answer the original question--reality.

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