Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced ...

Volvo has put a new spin on the turbocharged engine. The 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel motor in its upcoming S90 sedan doesn’t just use a turbocharger to compress air into the cylinders for increased ...

Running boost through a carburetor is nothing new, but what is groundbreaking is blowing boosted, sub-freezing air through a carburetor. In case you missed the previous tech pieces in HOT ROD magazine ...

Various compressed air-powered vehicles – of both the two-and four-wheeled variety – have graced our pages over the years, but with a few exceptions, such as Volvo’s Air Motion Concept, major ...

Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced ...

Trail carnage can happen in a variety of ways. Getting back on your tires and rolling home can be much easier with a tank of compressed air to fill said tires and/or run some tools for swapping on a ...

Kenneth Hall July 10, 2008 Comment Now! Tata may no longer be able to keep its promise of delivering the upcoming Nano minicar for $2,500 but the Indian carmaker may be able to offer customers another ...

A vehicle that runs on air. It sounds like a fantastic idea, but energy is still needed to compress the air and the losses that go hand-in-hand with converting energy still have to be taken into ...

Years ago, it was common for shops to have a central power source that drove all the tools through a system of belts, wheels and driveshafts. The power was routed around the work space by mechanical ...