Compressed Air Car

Air Car Factories is born with the conviction that the world, in which the demand for environmentally friendly energies is in constant growth, is now ready for a change.

We want to provide an immediate, honest and viable response to these needs and have the required experience to undertake this ambitious project.

Compressed air is an energy vector that can be used, in a viable way, to transport both people and goods.

The main goal of Air Car Factories is to develop and manufacture a vehicle driven by a compressed air engine with a level of performance that will respond to the actual needs of today's market. With this aim we have drawn up a full agenda and an R&D plan of action for production start up.

A vehicle powered by compressed air offers a lot of advantages in comparison with a normal combustion engine or an electrical motor.

The idea of using compressed air as an energy vector can, for example, also by applied to a hybrid vehicle, with cylinders functioning on compressed air and an additional battery working on electricity, creating a vehicle powered solely on electrical-pneumatic propulsion.

90m3 of compressed air is stored in fibre tanks. The expansion of this air pushes the pistons and creates movement. The atmospheric temperature is used to re-heat the engine and increase the road coverage. The air conditioning system makes use of the expelled cold air. Due to the absence of combustion and the fact there is no pollution, the oil change is only necessary every 31.000 miles.

At the moment, four models have been made: a car, a taxi (5 passengers), a Pick-Up truck and a van. The final selling price will be approximately 5.500 pounds.

Advantages:

- The costs involved to compress the air to be used in a vehicle are inferior to the costs involved with a normal combustion engine.

- Air is abundant, economical, transportable, storable and, most importantly, nonpolluting.

- The technology involved with compressed air reduces the production costs of vehicles with 20% because it is not necessary to assemble a refrigeration system, a fuel tank, spark plugs or silencers.

- Air itself is not flammable.

- The mechanical design of the motor is simple and robust.

- It does not suffer from corrosion damage resulting from the battery.

- Less manufacturing and maintenance costs.

- The tanks used in an air compressed motor can be discarded or recycled with less contamination than batteries.

- The tanks used in a compressed air motor have a longer lifespan in comparison with batteries, which, after a while suffer from a reduction in performance.