This news comes as something of a game changer for the Nano. Before the car offered bare bones transportation at a cheap price. Certainly a strong selling point, but with skyrocketing fuel prices, the ...

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 ...

Forced induction is a fantastic way to get more power out of a car, but it needs to rely on an intercooler. These can either be air-to-air or air-to-water.

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 ...

Using compressed air as a power adder (supercharger) is in vogue again! Younger readers may be wondering what we mean by this and argue that forcing super-cold, highly pressurized air into an engine’s ...

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 ...

Some folks just can’t leave well enough alone, and that often ends up being a good thing. Such is the case with this 3D-printed compressed air engine, which just keeps getting better. The design has ...

The provocative press release was still live in 2023, 16 years after its creation, on the Tata Motors corporate website. Dated February 5, 2007, and titled “An Engine Which Uses Air as Fuel,” the ...

Along with videophones, personal jet packs, and humanoid robots in French maid outfits, the futuristic daydream of a car that runs on air is something that Americans have pretty much abandoned. Well, ...

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 ...

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 ...