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Originally Posted by Big Dave
This falls under the heading of "there's one born every minute."
Two things kill compressed air cars:
Air compressors are not particularly efficient devices - around 25% for commercial compressors.
Air tanks are very heavy for the energy they store.
Gasoline and diesel did not come to dominate because of some deep dark conspiracy. They simply work better and always have.
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Not enough range and too heavy, isn't that what they used to say about electric cars? Now we have the technology to take a car over 200 miles on a single charge (Tesla Motors). Technology in compressed air is also getting better and light weight tanks (like the new scuba tanks) are being produced. I'm more interested in finding a way to make it happen instead of throwing up my hands, saying it won't work and continue burning fossil fuels.