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It would be nice if I started seeing a few of these parked at the Metro station. Instead, I see one 95-pound female getting out of some colossal Yukon Tundra Mammoth Rover that can't be parked by anyone without taking up two spaces. How sensible...
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Pipe Dreams! You must use energy to compress the air, there are inevitable pumping, frictional, and heat energy losses. Much better to eliminate the 'middleman', Use the energy invested to directly power the vehicle.
This "engine" is run by stored energy with substantial losses that has to be compared with a completely electric auto. The compressed air stores energy in a bottle while the electric stores it as an electrochemical reaction in a battery. The major advantage of a compressed air car is the simplicity as the “engine” is completely mechanical as are the controls. The energy advantage of both is that they can be recharged at night using the “surplus” capacity of the electric grid. I think this is a really appropriate technology for second and third world applications but less useful in the developed world.
I am certainly no expert on cars and engines... so this is an honest question... you don't think that this is superior to small cars we have now, like the "Smart" car?
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It would be nice if I started seeing a few of these parked at the Metro station. Instead, I see one 95-pound female getting out of some colossal Yukon Tundra Mammoth Rover that can't be parked by anyone without taking up two spaces. How sensible...
The odd thing I've noticed out here too Sag, is that the larger the vehicle the more likely that a rather small young lady is driving it.
I pointed this out to my wife a couple of months ago, and she didn't believe me. Since then, we have been specificially looking at who is driving the Tundra's, F-150's, Silverado's, Suburban's, Explorer's, Sequoia's and Durango's and she now agrees it is at least 60% female.
Kind of goes against the stereotype, but it is what it is...
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