Air Powered Car, Round 2: Fuel Vapor

I suppose if people stopped selling Florida swampland, this, too, would pass.

RichH

1.7 G's is variable depending on numerous factors, not limited to speed, type of corner, levelness of the corner, etc.

The standard for this measurement is performed on a 200 ft. diameter "Skid Pad".

Having wrenched some years ago on the winning, non ground effects race car (1.66 G's), At the "Skid Pad Challenge", in Topeka, Kansas, at the SCCA Solo II National championships and seeing NO vehicle on "street tires" exceed 1.1 to 1.15 G's, I must refute the claim of 1.7 G's until such time as this vehicle performs on a legimate Skid Pad.

This issue aside, I'm intrigued by the rest of the project.

The claims of reduced CO2 do not make any sense. If you burn a hydrocarbon, you produce H2O and CO2, if the combustion is perfect. Perfect combustion provides the most energy. If you are producing less CO2, you are less efficient. The carbon in the hydrocarbon has to go somewhere. If it is emitted as any other compound, energy is lost.

Catalytic converters do not reduce CO2, they actually increase it. Unburned hydrocarbons and CO (which normally would leave the exhaust) are converted to CO2.

Tad

Excellent and very interesting, at last a "properly" designed trike with two wheels at the front, which will help braking and controllability. I believe that there was a similar layout in a British sports car of the 1930s era, Triumph? I have forgotten.

Trikes with a single front wheel are just dangerous and uncomfortable to drive as the steering is usually too light and having just one hand resting on the wheel means you turn in that direction, or you have to support the whole weight of your arm......it may have improved in the years since I last drove one, but I doubt it.

This is a fresh modern breeze with a "Blast from the Past!!"

I wish them well....