To combat rising fuel costs and promoting clean energy, a group of students from the Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt came up with the surprising invention of a vehicle that runs on plain air.
The undergraduate students designed a vehicle as a part of their graduation project. They have already rolled out a prototype one-passenger vehicle which runs on compressed oxygen.
“The operational cost of the vehicle… will be almost nothing. You are basically using compressed air. You are not paying for fuel and also you do not need cooling,” said Mahmoud Yasser, a student who helped design it.
The students say their vehicle can hit 40 kilometers an hour and last 30 kilometers before needing to be refueled, and it only costs about 18,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,008.40) to build.
The University team is now moving towards raising funds in order to expand the project and eventually mass-produce the vehicles. The creators of the vehicle believe they can get the car to a top speed of 100 kmph and also increase the range to 100kms before needing more air.
