Best car evAr :)

[faksta]

OneCAT was developed by Guy Negre - French engineer from Air Car Factories. The main idea is that the car doesn't produce any pollution, as it works on ...compressed air. Tata is still the only company which bougth the license on this techology and acts as a partner for Negre.
The system is following: the air gets into a small cylinder, compresses to 20 bars by a piston, heats and then heads to a spheric camera. There a cold air is added to heated air and the mixture extends, increasing the pressure. Big cylinder's piston returns back and turns the cranked shaft. So, nothing to burn, nothing to pollute.
To fuel the car, you should fill two air tanks of 300 liters in common, which takes 3 minutes only with a powerful compressor. If you don't have one, connect the car with ordinary rosette, and the in-car compressor will complete the filling in 4 hours. Tata OneCAT covers 200kms on 300 liters and reaches 113 km/h. The [so-called] exhaust is filtered by carbon filters. Thus, the car doesn't pollute the ait at all. Moreover, it cleans the other cars' exhausts by taking it though itself.
And, finally, the price - 5000$. If this is the price for the future ecology, Lexus, BMW, General Motors and others are already dead

Pic#1 - the early version of OneCAT by Negre.

[Kultag]

You still have to compress the air, which makes its own pollution. Like electric vehicles: they pollute elsewhere. Renewable energy would be the best.

[teatako]

couldnt anyone make a sort of mini supercharger for this car so you don´t have to plug it anywhere, which would, for example take advantage of the engine´s energy while idling by charging itself?

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by faksta

Tata OneCAT covers 200kms on 300 liters

150l/100km? That's really bad...

[faksta]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

150l/100km? That's really bad...

OMG!!! It sounds really shitty if don't know that it's about the air, not fuel

[NSXType-R]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

150l/100km? That's really bad...

What's that in MPG? Not everyone uses the Metric system you know...

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

What's that in MPG? Not everyone uses the Metric system you know...

Well, every country on earth officially use it except for the US and Liberia if memory serves.

[faksta]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

What's that in MPG? Not everyone uses the Metric system you know...

100 km is just a bit more than 60 miles.

[fisetdavid26]

Originally Posted by faksta

100 km is just a bit more than 60 miles.

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometer. So 100 km = ~62 miles.

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[Cyco]

USA has metric as the official unit of measure since the 1860s iirc - just the population is a little slow...

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Isn't Metric generally a French creation?

Thus the reason why the US hasn't picked it up becomes clearer.

[LandQuail]

"Tata" still sounds, to these ears, like the things women paste to their nipples/alveoli so they can dance at "semi-topless" clubs. If the best answer for the question of rising fuel prices is the dubious stopgap solution of compressing air, I doubt the answer for the near-unsolvable "what are we going to do when petroleum gets scarce" question will be solved.

What we need is the same thing driving enthusiasts have been begging for since the 1950s: LIGHTWEIGHT CHASSIS AND EFFICIENT ENGINES!!!!!!!

Long Live Project Kimber!

[Kultag]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

What's that in MPG? Not everyone uses the Metric system you know...

1.57 US MPG / 1.88 IMP MPG

[wwgkd]

Originally Posted by teatako

couldnt anyone make a sort of mini supercharger for this car so you don´t have to plug it anywhere, which would, for example take advantage of the engine´s energy while idling by charging itself?

Um, no. That's perpetual motion, which has been the holy grail of energy for as long as there has been energy.

Unfortunately, if you look at the power required to compress the air, it actually produces more polutants than pure electric cars, which are not as effecient as hybrids. The only vehicles which have no harmful emissions anywhere in the powerchain are hydrogen fuel cells, which have their own harmfull effects and aren't practical in the forseeable future for small vehicles on a per cost basis. Hybrids, and diesel-electric hybrids in particular seem cool but cause a problem in disposing of the electrical equipment, such as batteries. There is no gravy train to free nonharmful energy, and people should stop trying to inflame public opinion by saying so. There never was and never will be any such thing as a free lunch.

[BaronVonDanknug]

So just put an air compresser in it somewhere thats refills as the car is moving and it would be totally self sustaining?