MINICAT – TATA MOTORS!

With fuel prices soaring to a new high, Tata Motors is all set to launch MiniCAT, a car that runs on compressed air. India’s largest automaker Tata Motors will start production of the world’s first commercial air powered vehicle very soon. After launching the ‘world’s cheapest car’ ,Tata Nano, the MiniCAT, which is scheduled for end 2012 / early 2013 launch, will be a revolutionary one and will be like stepping into next era where cars won’t require any fossil fuel and emissions that will be almost zero.

1.Compressed air is used as energy carrier which is clean, efficient and low cost. MDI stores the air at around 300 bar in carbon fibre composite storage cylinders which is used to push the pistons. This requires only 30 bar of pressure as compared to a traditional combustible engine.
2. The primary input of air (which takes place outside the engine by the process of heating the compressed air) which expands the air to the factor of three to five which is then injected on top of the smaller piston. The above process achieves a pressure which is twice as effective as a traditional internal combustion engine.
3. The MDI active chamber consisting two pistons per modular engine head then enables the energy efficiency to be more than double.
4. “Cool Combustion” - this step involves Giant Magneto-Caloric Effect to drastically cool the air. MDI aims to achieve further substantial energy gains by this process. The sudden cooling of air means that low-grade heat generation can be used in other wide range of applications including advanced forms of thermal solar energy. The surplus energy is then stored and used to recharge the compressed air storage.

It´s only the begin.

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