According to
Green Business, the
Air Car
will arrive in the US by 2009 or 2010, courtesy of
Zero Pollution Motors. The quirky alt-propulsion vehicle's anticipated $17,800 price tag includes standard safety equipment like
airbags and ABS, along with the 75-horsepower compressed-air six-cylinder that gives the car its name. Brave envelope-pushers might even reach the Air Car's estimated 96 mph top speed. Drivers who
aren't interested in treating it like a
Mustang GT, however, should achieve
fuel economy equivalent to 106 miles per gallon and have an operating range of 848 miles. The projected CO
2
emissions should be negligible (0.158 lbs/mile) when cruising at over 35 mph (the car uses small amounts of fossil fuel to get air in a heating chamber up to temperature at those speeds). Below that, it's expected be emissions-free, assuming the tech specs remain the same at the time the car reaches production. Until those are set in stone, the related performance and environmental numbers are subject to change.
Related:
Related:
- Air Car will be released this year thanks to $30 million from Tata
- BBC News video: Air Car out "by end of year," in Europe, for 3,500 Euros
- Air Car's first manufacturing plant will be located in Melbourne, cars sold in Australia next year
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