> > Is this true? > > > http://www.theaircar.com/ There was a short article about it in the big Swedish car magazine after a press show in Stockholm. A blonde beauty was bragging about all the benefits (the authors of the article showed no mercy in describing her talents) such as travelling 300km in 130 kmh, and just popping into the gas station for a quick air refill using the tire refill hose/thingie. The journalists quickly asked if it could really travel that far at that high speed. The blonde beaty did not know. It turned out to of course only driving 8 km or something at 130 kmh. And of course, the pressure of a normal tire pump at a gas station is by far too low (3-4 bar) to do any good when pumping up the car. The electrical charging is done with a charger in classical Wall-Wart style, extremely flimsy and ridicilous. The Wall-Wart drives a small pump-motor. The tests made by the reporters showed that it took considerably longer to charge the car, than the few hours stated in the specs. More like three times that, if I rembember correctly. One wonders why they don't install a high power compressor. If it could pump up in 10 minutes, the car would be worth something! The article also questioned the safety of the car with the high pressure tank. Regards Magnus von Rosen, Sweden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Mansheim" To: Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Air car > > Is this true? > > > http://www.theaircar.com/ > > If it is, I don't know that I would consider it "safe" to be sitting > on a 4000+ psi container of compressed air in an accident. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.