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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Mini-Cat Cars

Introducing the new car of tomorow! The mini-cat car is a car that is environmentally friendly and fuel efficient. This car is cheap to assemble and cheap to fuel. The mini-cat car runs on compressed air, and electricity which is safe for the environment and the air tanks are easy to get rid of. The compressed air can't catch fire and won't leave harmful vapors that other cars have. The car also doesn't need sparkplugs or batteries to run so there is less matenance needed. The mimi-cat car is environmentally friendly and is the safe car of the future.
Here are the links so you can learn more about the mini-cat car.

http://www.theaircar.com/acf/air-cars/energy-storage.html

http://www.theaircar.com/acf/

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a good post, but I'm not sure that it runs on electrisitey

Ziggy said...

thats an awesome article and a awesome idea. that is the type of car that Americans should have now with the gas prices being what they are today. when I turn 16 I know I will want to buy a car like that.

Marek Bennett said...

This is an intriguing concept. It's hard to believe it could work, but this page shows some interesting "energy storage systems" based on compressed air:

http://www.theaircar.com/acf/air-cars/energy-storage.html

I like the idea of cars generating electricity (and saving their brakes at the same time) in reduced speed areas. Here's a diagram:

http://www.theaircar.com/acf/imagenes/t_Paso1_rampa_45_grados.jpg