Future Cars - Air Cars

" This is Future Car."

" Think about a car than even runs on air, the air we breathe, the air that's for free. Only if we dare, only if we dare to imagine a future beyond anything that's available today."

" Science fiction novelist, Jules Verne predicted that cars would one day run on air. Ironically, Guy Negre just happens to share his birthday."

" Yes, Jules Verne was born on the same day of me."

" And Mr. Negre has created, yes, the air car. Fully functional prototypes of lightweight cars fueled completely by compressed air."

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" We started out with a blank page, and we tried to create a new car, a car that was nothing like the cars we were accustomed to."

" Something like 10 years ago, he arrived with a conclusion that doing some sports cars, some efficient cars, some consuming cars was not the solution, and that there is a real problem with petrol. There is a real problem with emissions, and we have to do something."

" My name is Cyril Negre, and I'm working with my father since 1993, and we arrived in this solution that we can use compressed air."

" Imagine, it costs nothing, nothing to fill up your car with gas. That gas also happens to be the same gas that fills your lungs with every breath."

" The principle is simple. [unk]"

" Actually, all engines work with compressed air. Most engines suck it in, heat it up. It pressurizes, and it pushes on a piston. In our engine, we pressurize the air first. So when we apply it to the piston, the piston is pushed."

" But in this kind of engine, what we are doing, we are bringing the air with high pressure, and you should take into account the fact that you need to compress the air and to expand it into the engine. This is a whole system totally free of emission."

" Actually, the air car does have emissions. It's ice-cold, completely clean, highly breathable air. Imagine a fleet of air car taxi cabs in thermally-challenged cities like Los Angeles or Mexico City, cleaning and cooling the atmosphere as they ferry people about."

" [unk]"

" Obviously, compressed air isn't like carburetion. It doesn't use combustion. Compressed air is an energy carrier. It has to be compressed, and then it will restore and return what we gave it."