It's made by MDI:

     http://www.mdi.lu/english/

     MJ


On 16-May-11 08:33, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Michael Watterson wrote:
>> There is an Indian car maybe made by Tata, very light and short range
>> that runs on compressed air.
>>
>> It's not method where much energy can be stored, but I presume it just
>> drives a simple piston "engine".
> Compressed air also not as efficient as you might think at storing and
> retrieving energy.  It's not like a spring, which is pretty efficient.  T=
he
> problem is that air heats up as you compress it and cools when you allow =
the
> pressure to reduce.  Unless the high pressure reservoir is well insulated
> and you use it before much of the heat leaks out, you are going to loose
> energy.
>
>
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