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Originally Posted by Ryland
What really gets me is that the 500 pound compressed air powered cars that are being built and shown in videos as proof that they work are costing over $.12 per mile just in electricity costs to compress the air, with $3.60 gasoline that's costing you the same as if you were getting 30mpg in that two person 500 pound car!
so the price of your car that could blow away in a strong wind is costing $11,000 or more if you want to fill it at home so you're not charged a higher fee at a filling station.
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Economics suck doesn't it.
The only way the air car would be remotely economical would be if there were a huge number of them near the ocean enough to justify a very large scale compression system with very high efficiency but even if you massively increase the efficiency of the compression the motor in the car still sucks and wouldn't do much better in an ideal world than $0.06 per mile. That after 100's of millions of dollars of sunk investment.