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Will Air-Powered Vehicles Ever Become A Reality? By Tatiana Serova - Mar 13, 2021, 4:00 PM CST
In 2008, when the Indian company Tata Motors announced plans to commercialize a vehicle that would be fueled by air, many optimists believed that a revolution was underway in the transport sector. However, more than ten years later, this promising and carbon-free technology has yet to reach production and now seems to be dead in the water. So what happened, and is there still any hope to turn this technological dream into a reality?
The origins of the compressed-air car date back to 1996, when a French engineer named Guy Negre first proposed this idea. His firm Motor Development International (MDI) designed and manufactured a prototype of a car entirely fueled by air. The vehicle had the appearance of a futuristic golf cart, and its motor was meant to be fueled by air stored in tanks under pressure and then released, producing energy (a similar principle was applied by Rober