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 ...

French automaker Peugeot Citroen's latest automotive innovation — named "Hybrid Air" — operates on compressed air, gasoline or a combination of the two, DigitalTrends.com reports. At speeds ...

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?

So Funky, So French: Wild Citroen C4 Cactus Airflow 2L Uses Compressed-Air (!) Hybrid Powertrain to Achieve 118 mpg; A Pair of Peugeot Concepts Debuts in Paris: One Prescient (and Possibly Good ...

Compressed air In 1979, as America ... Pressure generated by the release of compressed air from onboard tanks drove the car's engine. Miller's ... French for "mixed," the car was a ...

Around 2008, a French engineer made the headlines with the idea of manufacturing a car that could run on compressed air. Guy Nègre had conceived the CAT (Compressed Air Technology) Air Car. We ...