What may be of interest to you and probably people you know is that the Air Car is being designed by a former formula one racer and MDI, is basically an electric car which uses compressed air (or combo air/petrol or ethanol) for fuel, will have optional 2, 4 or 6 cylinders, has fuel cylinders designed to split within a casing rather than explode in the event of a car accident, is made of light-weight aluminum, has only clean air for exhaust and will be on sale in 2008.

The CityCat model will travel at speeds up to 68 mph for up to 125 miles before refuelling with a standard air compressor which takes a few minutes or via electrical outlet which takes about four hours. The side note here is that it should not use an expensive or compromising amount of electricity ...and fuel efficiency is the winning ingredient.

I know... this sounds really nice.

It sounds like the current models are noisy on some accounts. I'm hoping this will greatly diminished at show time. The question I'm really asking myself is "Which is the better long term/short term fuel strategy?" Granted the powers in control in the US are not allowing the air compressor only cars to be sold here at this point. However, I hear that the air compressor/ethanol hybrid will be. Where can one find an air compressor anyway?

If you have more information, I'm all ears. Please also submit links related to this topic.