Looking for a gas alternative? You may consider a car that runs on air.Zero Pollution Motors has developed a vehicle that runs on air ... and a dash of salad oil or alcohol. The vehicle is not as fast as let's say, a Corvette, but for around $20,000-$40,000 your air-car can motor around all day long.
The expertise necessary has been taken off the shelf. As Yahoo Finance reports, the technology uses compressed air initially, instead of gas or diesel fuel combustion that will then create a burst of air. The air-car can cruise at a top speed of 35 mph for around 60 miles. When an additional motor is added in order to keep the tank filled, the CAV (compressed air vehicle) can then run for nearly 800 miles at interstate speeds.
The CAVs will be available in 2011, and will be built in factories that make up to 8000 vehicles a year. There will be plants in every state, and California will have 17 plants due to the high number of drivers. Florida will follow with 12 plants, Georgia will have four, and Connecticut will have two.
The air-car only has one hurdle to jump. It must pass federal crash tests. Fortunately, Zero Pollution Motors is not worried at all.
Shiva Vencat, president and CEO, says, "The requirements can be modeled [on a computer] before anything is built and adjusted to ensure that the cars will pass."
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