Alternative energy is more in trend now than Paris Hilton’s wardrobe. After all the solar power grabbing, now inventors are turning towards the air. Yeah, there is this Air Pod vehicle that will run with air-powered engine. What happens is the air car can be plugged into a wall allowing an on-board compressor to pressurize the car’s air tank to 4,500 pounds per square inch. Then after four hours, this pressure can be used by slowly releasing it to power the pistons. In that time, the car’s 5.5-kilowatt compressor would eat up 22 kilowatt-hours of electricity to travel 20 miles. Doesn’t it sound oddly like a certain system in the human body? Basic biology! Anyway, so the car is really cool as it only gives out fresh air from the almost frozen exhaust pipe. But you cant have it all, the speed is quite low up to only 35 miles per hour.

The French startup Zero Pollution Motors who brought this up will launch the air car in America by early 2011. Currently it costs between £11,000 and £12,500 with fuel economy equivalent to 100 miles per gallon.

Via - [Greenlaunches]