A Car Powered By Air. By Amy Clark. October 28, 2006 / 11:15 PM EDT / CBS ... At their factory in southern France, father-and-son team Guy and Cyril Negre insist air power is no joke.

As Jesse Emspak of Discovery News points out, compressed air engines can only power a car at speeds of about 30 to 35 miles per hour, meaning they would need to be powered by an onboard electric ...

It announced ten years later, in 2017, that air-powered car would be available by 2020, according to the International Business Times. Clearly, that also hasn't happened.

Can compressed air power a Lego car. In this experiment, we build and test an air-turbine system that drives a Lego vehicle using a 2-liter compressed air tank. By channeling pressurized air ...

Getting them to power a car is a different story. In short, you have to carry your compressed air around with you, and that’s easier said than done. As usual, Brick Technology has figured it out.