This news comes as something of a game changer for the Nano. Before the car offered bare bones transportation at a cheap price. Certainly a strong selling point, but with skyrocketing fuel prices, the ...

[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.

Volvo has put a new spin on the turbocharged engine. The 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel motor in its upcoming S90 sedan doesn’t just use a turbocharger to compress air into the cylinders for increased ...

Forced induction is a fantastic way to get more power out of a car, but it needs to rely on an intercooler. These can either be air-to-air or air-to-water.

Along with videophones, personal jet packs, and humanoid robots in French maid outfits, the futuristic daydream of a car that runs on air is something that Americans have pretty much abandoned. Well, ...

The provocative press release was still live in 2023, 16 years after its creation, on the Tata Motors corporate website. Dated February 5, 2007, and titled “An Engine Which Uses Air as Fuel,” the ...

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world's first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 ...

Technology is a wonderful thing, and any time that it can benefit the needs of mini-truckers, you can bet that MT will be there to capture it on film. After years of watching mini-truckers ...

An Australian man has invented a vehicle powered by compressed air, although it’s not the world’s first, despite his claims (I’ve seen other prototypes before). However, the best part of Angelo Di ...

Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced ...