December 2, 2004 French engineers have designed a low consumption and low pollution engine for urban motoring that runs on compressed air technology. The CATS ...

With a sticker price of less than $18,000, the U.S.-spec Air Car will use a 75-hp Dual-Energy compressed-air engine to hit 96 mph and travel up to 850 miles on about eight gallons of fuel - that's ...

Compressed-air engines are not new technology -- the French were powering trams with compressed air back in the 19th century.

A French-designed car that’s propelled by compressed air and claims speeds of more than 60 miles per hour is expected to go into commercial production as early as this summer, although skeptics ...

Manufacturing vehicles that run on compressed air is clean, cheap and easy—or so the thinking goes, for a handful of niche manufacturers. Can compressed air save bad air quality and choked streets?

A ­former engine developer for Formula 1, Negre began work on his air engine in 1997. By 2004, with a raft of patents under its belt, the MDI team was showing off working compressed-air car (CAC ...

An intercooler is like a radiator but for air. Whereas your car's radiator prevents engine overheating by lowering the temperature of hot liquid coolant, the intercooler works similarly and lowers ...