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Old 11-15-2011, 01:15 PM   #14
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Yeah I'm skeptical of the 300km range too, though it does look like a very small and light car.

And unless the electricity is being provided by a renewable energy source, this is actually worse than burning fossil fuels directly.

Fossil Fuel -> Car is going to be more efficient than Fossil Fuel -> Electricity -> Compressor -> Air -> Car

And the compression / decompression stages are very lossy.. compressing the air will generate lots of waste heat, though using it will cool the air which is great for A/C
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