Lego vehicles don’t typically escape the realm of electric power, but as we’ve seen before, you can build air-powered engines with the building blocks, and they can even do useful work. Getting them ...

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

In the early 1960s, Garrett AiResearch, then best known as the maker of turboprop aviation engines, was moving into the automotive market. With a Garrett T05 turbocharger under the hood of the first ...

A bladeless turbine design converts the static electricity naturally generated by dust particles in compressed air into ...

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 ...

A somewhat different and little-known alternative in the field of mobility, especially regarding sustainable mobility and zero emissions, is gaining ground in the market. We are not talking about ...

NEW YORK -- Most car companies are racing to bring electric vehicles to the market. But one startup is making cars whose energy source is pulled literally out of thin air. Zero Pollution Motors is ...

A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world's first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers and can hit a top speed of around 30 ...

The provocative press release was still live in 2023, 16 years after its creation, on the Tata Motors corporate website. Dated February 5, 2007, and titled “An Engine Which Uses Air as Fuel,” the ...

How A Turbocharged Engine Works: A turbocharged engine is designed to generate more power from a smaller engine. It does this ...