The world is in love with personal travel. As human beings we love jumping into our vehicles and traveling to and from, when and where we would like. Our current modes of personal transportation, the gas automobile leave much to desire. Not only are prices of refueling increasing substantially but the toll on global environment is seriously grim. In America we desperately need an alternate fuel source vehicle that has zero emissions and is cost effective. The Air car is the best possible zero emission, cost effective personal transport vehicle currently produced.
The human race has long been obsessed with making ground transportation faster and easier. First modes of assisted transportation include riding horseback or in carriages to bicycles, boats, trains, and now the automobile. As early as late 1600’s the first steam powered ‘automobile’ was produced in china. In the late 1880’s many different fuel source vehicles where invented. The types include internal combustion which used a mix of hydrogen and oxygen, electric powered, and our more common gas engine. Although modern 20th century vehicles were both efficient and cost effective in the late 1900’s the public became widely aware of their downfalls. This created a need for a vehicle that did not produce harmful to the environment emissions, did not strip the earth of natural resources, and was cost effective. To deal with these issues major automakers began exploring alternate fuel source vehicles including hydrogen fuel cells, electric, hybrid gas electric, and electric solar. However, smaller independent firms were developing air propelled or compressed air propulsion prototypes.
The idea of using compressed air to move objects was said to be developed in the early 1800s. In the 1830s the first ever compressed air vehicle was designed and tested by the French. France then developed and produced a transit system for many cities using the Mekarski air engine in the 1870s. In the early 1900s Americans...