Crowd-funded Lego car powered by air

[think]

Crowd-funded Lego car powered by air

19 December 2013 Last updated at 11:06 ET

An air-powered car built of Lego, that can reach a top speed of around 20km/h (12mph) has hit the roads of Melbourne.

It was built by an Australian entrepreneur and a Romanian technologist who used more than 500,000 pieces of Lego to complete the car.

The crowd-funded project began with a tweet asking people to invest in an "awesome" start-up.

Four air-powered engines and 256 pistons, all built of Lego bricks, enable the car to move.

Everything bar the wheels is made from Lego...


Full article & video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25446912

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[SomethingFishy]

1. Man, I hope they used Gorilla Glue on that thing!

A Lego car? All I can see in my head is a Lego video game where the objects just burst into hundreds of pieces..

[Heather MC]

2. Hmm can an air car be mass produced?

as a real car not legos

[think]

3. Perhaps. Peugot is working on a gas / air hybrid

http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/inside-our-industrial-environment/innovation-and-rd/hybrid-air-an-innovative-full-hybrid-gasoline-system-article


And these guys have been at it for some time. Not sure of they are still making any progress in mass producing them but the models they are kind of early prototypes and fairly noisy:

http://www.mdi.lu/english/

[Heather MC]

4. cue the Republican who says Air is a finite resource and we will run out of it if we use it to power

a car