A hybrid system, broadly defined, is any two power sources that combine to provide torque to drive a car's wheels. While most are hybrid-electric--a combustion engine plus one or two electric motors ...

Just in case the electric vehicle revolution never really talks off, India’s Tata Motors is working on what sounds like an even better solution to the world’s clean vehicle quandary: cars that run on ...

Cars that run on compressed air sound like a fantastic idea on paper, but bringing this technology to the masses has proven, well, a difficult road to travel. There's some positive news on the air-car ...

[Tom Stanton] has been experimenting with compressed air motors on model aircraft for a good few years, but keeping them aloft (and intact) for more than a few seconds has proven a tough nut to crack.

Aside from ‘free energy’ devices which some claim are myths (even though the information is just being suppressed so that we use more oil), creating power out of nothing is next-to-impossible. The ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- As electric cars begin breaking into the short-distance vehicle market, one French company thinks that it has an alternative to the electric vehicle: a car that runs on compressed air ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 23, 2013 Comment Now! From the same company that brought us the world’s first diesel-electric hybrid, comes a new concept that does away with the electric component of ...

While reading a piece about the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a thought kerplunked into our always wandering minds. The words "air" and "space" reminded us that it was time to get our ...

Developed by Moteur Developpement International, the Compressed Air Engine might just be best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years. And now, one of the first commercial applications for ...

Here’s something only ’90s kids will remember. In 1998, the Air Hogs Sky Shark, a free-flying model airplane powered by compressed air was released. This plane featured foam stabilizers, wings, a ...