Pneumatic Hybrids Could Reduce Fuel Consumption
Postat: 12 feb 2009 17:37Pneumatic Hybrids: Inexpensive Gasoline + Compressed Air System Could Reduce Fuel Consumption by 32%
Engineers have been looking for ways to use compressed air to save fuel for a long time. Turbochargers and superchargers can do that when you use them to downsize a vehicle's engine, but an even better system that offers bigger improvements and fewer downsides is under development at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.