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The Air Powered Car By: Nicole Riccardi Recently the United States economy has been going downhill, especially in the Automotive Industry. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford have all been going under and a few are barely staying a float. The United States also has to deal with the rising concern of global warming and finding alternative energy to help the growing crisis. One way to help solve both of these major problems is to build a Air Car. The magnetic air technology is a combination of magnet motor and compressed air motor. A battery starts a special magnetic motor to initialize the powerful air compressor, heating up the air tank in order to boost the air pressure. The air flow is then turbocharged and multiplied to where the resulting horse-pressure smoothly powers the car. The Magnetic Air Car uses three on-board substations to harness compressed air. The resulting airflow is channeled, modulated, and converted to [|torque] that propels the car (from the website Chemically Green).According to company representative Paul Donovan, "the car uses a silicon salt battery that has 30% more mass power than a lead acid storage battery and can charge completely within an hour." The Air Car is easier to take care of then a gas powered car. The 95% recyclable battery can also be used in a temperature range from -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius. The car can go 100 miles + without needing a refuel. The technology seems to involve something called an air-bearing turbocharger which uses a $70 battery to run a magnetic motor. The Air Car use only one specially designed battery the size of a regular car battery which has three times the charging capacity and a much longer life cycle. Instead of $3,000-$5,000 for lithium batteries, the battery costs less than $70. The battery does not contain acid; it will even retain its first charge sitting on a shelf for up to three years. A crash safety test has not been conducted as of yet. No car has been put together for a sufficent safetly test to be done. Though the Air Powered Car has not been released yet their are so many possibilities of how it could help around the world from what is being used now to what could be used in the future. Some advantages to using an air powered car is:
 * refueling can be done at home with an air compressor
 * Compressed air engines reduce the cost of vehicle production, because there is no need to build a cooling system, spark plugs, starter motor,or mufflers.
 * Reduction or elimination of hazardous chemicals such as gasoline or battery acids/metals.

Disadvantages to using an air powered car:
 * Refueling the compressed air container using a home or low-end conventional air compressor may take as long as 4 hours though the specialized equipment at service stations may fill the tanks in only 3 minutes.
 * Early tests have demonstrated the limited storage capacity of the tanks; the only published test of a vehicle running on compressed air alone was limited to a range of 7.22 km.[|Info]

Engine of Air Car [|The Air Car]