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The car that runs on AIR: Peugot reveals plans for hybrid set to hit the streets next year
Daily Mail ^ | February 26, 2014 | Mark Prigg

Posted on 02/26/2014 1:07:24 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian

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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Fill it up with helium and you can float over traffic jams.


21 posted on 02/26/2014 1:21:37 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Interesting idea, hope it works out. Better than buying Chinese manufactured batteries.


22 posted on 02/26/2014 1:21:56 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: mwilli20
A French car that sucks. Quelle surprise!
Sometimes it blows.


23 posted on 02/26/2014 1:21:59 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: F15Eagle

Well I for one welcome our new bovine overlords!


24 posted on 02/26/2014 1:22:02 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: loungitude

There is a diagram in the article. The energy stored in the compressed gas is created and transferred with hydraulics. The compressed air is trapped in what is referred to as a hydraulic accumulator. Efficient enough.


26 posted on 02/26/2014 1:24:36 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: F15Eagle

They are beyond that. The Aurora Bovinealias Spacecow project...real hush hush stuff...


27 posted on 02/26/2014 1:24:41 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: F15Eagle; mwilli20
They should call this model "Le Petomane"


28 posted on 02/26/2014 1:25:46 PM PST by Constitution Day (Endeavor To Persevere)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
"...could reduce petrol bills by 80% when driven in cities."

So what does it do outside city limits?

29 posted on 02/26/2014 1:26:17 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I always knew the government would find a way to tax air.

You know they will find a way!


30 posted on 02/26/2014 1:26:49 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

This has been around for decades. The designer is a former F1 engineer.

A little less talking, a little more action.

Personally I don’t see it.


31 posted on 02/26/2014 1:27:25 PM PST by prisoner6 (FREEDOM)
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To: Cboldt

And NG or propane powered vehicles? There are more and more of the former and still a few of the latter.


32 posted on 02/26/2014 1:29:00 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Peugeot has revealed plans to begin selling the first air powered car next year.

Obama Motors beat them to it.


33 posted on 02/26/2014 1:29:10 PM PST by Iron Munro (Eight died on that bridge at Concord, back in 1775. How many will it take this time?)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I remember seeing a story a couple of years back about a speed bump that was installed to that charged a battery when a car drove over it. I thought that was an interesting concept if a driver had to slow down for a stop sign.


34 posted on 02/26/2014 1:29:36 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

There will always be loss of energy in the form of heat that cannot be captured. It takes energy to compress the gas, but in compression heat will be generated and lost. In releasing the compressed gas to I presume to operate some type of turbine there will also be energy lost do to heat. I fail to see how this could be very efficient particularly with the high pressures needed to give any serious locomotion. I remember an episode of Myth Busters where they tried to propel a boat using compressed air jets and found it didn’t work.


35 posted on 02/26/2014 1:29:50 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be converted. All processes of conversion involve a loss of some kind.

That law of Physics can not be undone by legislative or presidential fiat.

So, we need to know where the energy comes from to compress the air. Obviously not from air, as the headline implies.

What is the cost of the energy? What percentage makes it to the wheels of the car? How much leaks? What is the cost of government subsidies?


36 posted on 02/26/2014 1:30:49 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Perhaps if the compression cycle was integrated with
braking, then useable energy could be recovered and
used again. ??


37 posted on 02/26/2014 1:31:43 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I had the idea that the braking turns a hydraulic pump that compresses the air and that the engine could do it if it needed to. They specified ‘city driving’ for the economy spec, so that makes some sense.


38 posted on 02/26/2014 1:32:28 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: loungitude

Are they worse that electric hybrids? High voltage, heavy metal, heavy vehicles carrying a lot more force when they crash than a non-hybrid, difficult to quench fires, toxic fumes, etc.

If the French can make a compressed air hybrid car work, more power to them! If they did, it would sure be a black eye to Government Motors.


39 posted on 02/26/2014 1:34:10 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: I want the USA back

An engine compresses the air. Apparently the compressed air turns the wheels at a more efficient rate than the mechanical differential drive train.


40 posted on 02/26/2014 1:35:07 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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