Looking at the aircar's webpage all I can say is... Wow, distort propaganda much? I mean, claim they has a zero emissions in city gas/air hybrid... then do this by dumping the exhaust into a storage tank for later disposal... which has nothing to do with the air car and everything to do with making you pay to get the fuel... then pay again to get rid of it. So as for what you do with the exhaust I note they fail to mention it... though I'm sure it has to do with the service station. They also have a list of prospective alternate energy sources, but they are pretty much pandering to 'green' energy people, so I'll ignore those.
The power models that made sense was the plug it in over night model and the compressor station model (though this could be adapted for a home fill up station as well as service station). It does appear to have a descent one day range, though the display model that is striped down, doesn't yet meet anyones safety standards. This means the 2000 km range is rigged to look good. Once they make it to government standards of safety, add in a trunk (a taxi without a trunk? What were they thinking), and make it into a street usable car, the mileage may drop to lets say 400-600 km range. Which is still a reasonable range for it advertised purpose.
Though I missed the max speed of the vehicle (if it can't hit 45-50 mph its going to be a pain to deal with for other drivers) and how loud your car's air compressor is going to be (charging will be done over night after all), in general it looks like the air car is a viable vehicle for around town and with fill stations and a trunk can be used as a taxi for many city... if it can get any descent speed and a trunk.
Battery power cars are a money sink hole. They cost a lot and don't pay for themselves in fuel costs for like a decade. The batteries are toxic waste and expensive to replace or dispose of legally. I think the price was around 3 grand US to replace one of the several batteries in the car last time I checked. That doesn't include disposal of the old one.
Current hydrogen cars are natural gas powered, they just make you feel better about not seeing the petrochemical fuel being used, as that is done where they make the hydrogen fuel from natural gas.
So, if the aircar can get a useful speed (if it goes like 30 mph max its going to be useless after all the traffic tickets hit you) and won't make anyone listen to 6-8 hours of air compressor noise (which is were the car not exploding if the tank takes a bullet comes in)... I think it may be the single most reasonable and effect 'green car' I've scene. How ever its ugly (color blind people should color things) and has emotional eyes that with has kids thinking its 'alive' like those cars on TV.
The power models that made sense was the plug it in over night model and the compressor station model (though this could be adapted for a home fill up station as well as service station). It does appear to have a descent one day range, though the display model that is striped down, doesn't yet meet anyones safety standards. This means the 2000 km range is rigged to look good. Once they make it to government standards of safety, add in a trunk (a taxi without a trunk? What were they thinking), and make it into a street usable car, the mileage may drop to lets say 400-600 km range. Which is still a reasonable range for it advertised purpose.
Though I missed the max speed of the vehicle (if it can't hit 45-50 mph its going to be a pain to deal with for other drivers) and how loud your car's air compressor is going to be (charging will be done over night after all), in general it looks like the air car is a viable vehicle for around town and with fill stations and a trunk can be used as a taxi for many city... if it can get any descent speed and a trunk.
Battery power cars are a money sink hole. They cost a lot and don't pay for themselves in fuel costs for like a decade. The batteries are toxic waste and expensive to replace or dispose of legally. I think the price was around 3 grand US to replace one of the several batteries in the car last time I checked. That doesn't include disposal of the old one.
Current hydrogen cars are natural gas powered, they just make you feel better about not seeing the petrochemical fuel being used, as that is done where they make the hydrogen fuel from natural gas.
So, if the aircar can get a useful speed (if it goes like 30 mph max its going to be useless after all the traffic tickets hit you) and won't make anyone listen to 6-8 hours of air compressor noise (which is were the car not exploding if the tank takes a bullet comes in)... I think it may be the single most reasonable and effect 'green car' I've scene. How ever its ugly (color blind people should color things) and has emotional eyes that with has kids thinking its 'alive' like those cars on TV.