My idea for an environmentally friendly car

Air Powered Engine with Battery Driven Air Compressor

Since everybody was talking about environmentally friendly vehicles, I want to chip in my ideas too. I don't know whether it is feasible or not, but I will definitely look at it if I got the funds.

The ideas in simple terms would be a car run on compressed air. It could use series of Di Pietro Motor or of other makes.

There will be a tank or multiple smaller tanks with backflow valves that stored compressed air enough for at least 30 minutes or 30km of driving. I think that would be the average distance to one's office.

To ensure extended use, and so that the car would not run out of air (so to speak), I will integrate an air-compressor in the car. Additionally, more pressure can be induced by adding an electric heater inside the air tank/s and having the compressor deliver heated air. (it might be useful in colder countries as the decompression of air when exiting the engine might freeze it.

To run the compressor, set of batteries will be installed into the car. Hopefully the battery capacity is enough for the compressor to replenish the air in the car for another 100km of driving.

The compressor should pump in air faster than the engine sucking it out. We don't want stop every 30km for the compressor to replenish the air tank.

We already got 130km on this battery and air combination.

Now to give it extra mileage, we could add a small engine enough to recharge the batteries.

The batteries could be recharged by the engine, household plug, or some high end specific fast-charger.

The engine need not to run all the time, just when the batteries power went below a pre-determined threshold. The batteries and the compressor also will not run all the time.

The engine should be powerful enough to recharge the batteries while it's power being drained by the compressor.

Better yet, if you got Solar panel or Sterling Engine in it, you could use it to constantly recharge the batteries.

And if you still want additional torque especially while overtaking, we could add 20-30kw electric motor to complement the air-compressed engine when needed.

So thats it.

I want to do research in it, but have no money. But if you got it right, please do not forget me..

Proton Exora comparison with Grand Livina and Toyota Avanza

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