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 ...

Belching out black smoke, steam locomotives (SLs) boasted an unyielding presence on Japan’s rails decades ago.

[Tom Stanton] has been experimenting with compressed air motors on model aircraft for a good few years, but keeping them aloft (and intact) for more than a few seconds has proven a tough nut to crack.

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 ...

Developed by Moteur Developpement International, the Compressed Air Engine might just be best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years. And now, one of the first commercial applications for ...

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 ...

It's 1850 and you are driving a team of oxen, pulling an overloaded Conestoga wagon heading west across the featureless plains on the Oregon Trail. As you clear a rise, you come across a body lying ...

In an effort to reduce the level of air pollution in busy crowded cities, a team of Taiwanese researchers have developed an air-powered motorcycle, which uses compressed air to drive the motor. The ...

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 ...