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 ...

Using compressed air as a power adder (supercharger) is in vogue again! Younger readers may be wondering what we mean by this and argue that forcing super-cold, highly pressurized air into an engine’s ...

It may seem like a horse-drawn Zeppelin, but Astro Mechanica seems to be all-in on its revolutionary hybrid-electric ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1949 we saw the first aircraft, the Leduc 0.10, to fly entirely powered by a ramjet, which also directed compressed air into the engine – but this time compressed entirely by the aircraft's own ...

A somewhat different and little-known alternative in the field of mobility, especially regarding sustainable mobility and zero emissions, is gaining ground in the market. We are not talking about ...

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 ...

A new approach to powering ferry boats could help reshape maritime transport while cutting costs and emissions. Scientists have proposed a pneumatic propulsion system that replaces traditional diesel ...

Nathaniel is an experienced automotive writer with more than 10 years of automotive writing under his belt. From model reviews to industry politics to new innovations and development, he covers a wide ...

Researchers in China developed a new compressed air energy storage system that uses flooded roadways in abandoned coal mines to store compressed air and heat for nighttime power generation.