In the early 1960s, Garrett AiResearch, then best known as the maker of turboprop aviation engines, was moving into the automotive market. With a Garrett T05 turbocharger under the hood of the first ...

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 ...

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 ...

The perpetual-motion machine may be eons away, but the the first commercially viable car to run on compressed air may be at hand. The brainchild of French inventor Guy N gre, the MDI, which we first ...

When it rains, it pours. Just when the recent flurry of activity with turbocharging for Funny Cars and dragsters has started turning heads and arousing people, another development has come along that ...

Lego vehicles don’t typically escape the realm of electric power, but as we’ve seen before, you can build air-powered engines with the building blocks, and they can even do useful work. Getting them ...

NEW YORK -- Most car companies are racing to bring electric vehicles to the market. But one startup is making cars whose energy source is pulled literally out of thin air. Zero Pollution Motors is ...

NEW YORK - Most car companies are racing to bring electric vehicles to the market. But one startup is skipping the high-tech electronics, making cars whose energy source is pulled literally out of ...

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 ...

Air engines are a common occurrence here on Hackaday. They’re relatively novel and reasonably easy to 3D print without requiring any fluids or supporting machinery. For example, [Tom Stanton] took a ...

The VMAC G30+GEN air compressor/generator combines two convenient forms of power into a single, innovative system. Operators with VMAC’s rotary screw air compressor/generator combo on their service ...