Magnetic Air Car Could Be Ready by 2010
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The Magnetic Air Car uses three on-board substations to harness compressed air. The resulting airflow is channeled, modulated, and converted to torque that propels the car.
According to company representative Paul Donovan, the car uses a silicon salt battery that has 30% more mass power than a lead acid storage battery and can charge completely within an hour. The 95 percent recyclable battery can also can be used in a temperature range from -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.
Though the Magnetic Air Car has not yet been tested, Donovan hopes to have it ready for production by 2010. The company plans on building its first prototype at Club Auto Sport in San Jose in the near future.
The vehicle draws comparisons to Tata Motors’ 106 mpg air car, but Donovan says that the Tata Motors design uses pistons while the Magnetic Air Car design uses magnetic technology.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any more details available on the Magnetic Air Car at this time. But if the prototype is successful, I’m sure we’ll hear plenty more about this company.
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Ariel, the value of articles and sites like this is in how they circulate ideas and demonstrate the ingenuity that’s available to us. You’re providing an invaluable service that I hope everyone appreciates and recommends it to others. (lol, no, I’m not related to Ariel and have never met her).
The fact is that we can overcome our energy problems, because there are hundreds of thousands of great ideas that are just waiting to be exploited. The biggest obstacle has been suppressed information, but now that blogging is here, humankind can finally see the broader picture and make informed choices.
Wow, that is one nice looking car. I would certainly drive it.
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Not to seem pessimistic, but I’m filing this under “snake oil” until I see more information on how it works.
Ariel,
Could you please elaborate on the statement “the world’s first fuel-less car”. As far as i can see from the rest of the article, “the car uses a silicon salt battery”, which makes it an electric car? The propulsion methods sounds unique, but the “fuel” is electricity.
So, given that this is nothing more than an electric car, what are the advantages of this “magnetic air” system over a more conventional electric motor?
Compressed air and an onboard battery… that’s an awful lot of fuel sources for a “fuel-less car”.
And how are you generating the electricity that powers the car?
***The San Jose-based company claims that it is working on the world’s first fuel-less car.***
How can this company make the claim that they “working on the world’s first fuel-less car.” Do they also have a time machine? To work on the world’s firs “fuel-less” car, they would have to go back about one century in time. Their website even shows a page from Popular Mechanics/Popular Science from around the 1930s regarding a compressed air car: http://magneticaircars.com/pressrelease_files/image014.jpg
More recently, a couple of crazy Canadians have been building truly fuel-less vehicles for years: http://solarvehicles.org/home.html
These vehicles are truly fuel-less, because one doesn’t need to put anything in them — neither compressed air nor electricity — these vehicles can generate their own power directly from sun light.
Hey I have a Car that runs on nothing, uses batteries made from Oxygen, recharges by brain power. I can’t show it to you, I have nothing to show you, but if you give me money I will let you peek!
This sounds absolutley like a big pile of VAPOR!
Green Technologies are being proven to be nothing BUT VAPOR!
The fact is that this car still requires fuel of some sort. In this case the car is storing its fuel as compressed air. The tanks which would store this air are very dangerous for explosive decompression in the event of an accident. Also the energy density of compressed air is extremely low when compared with gasoline. In the end it will take energy, most likely in the form of electricity from fossil fuels in order to compress the air into the tank and provide less efficiency with the engine so as to make this car cause a net increase in pollution output.
Personal prediction: this will never come to market and if it somehow does, will be priced out of the range of the common man.