<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b551c7c-5c5a-4f6d-b397-9e9dddd95157/D23E3370-2938-415D-9935-6A899ED415D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/" href="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/" style="font-size: 11px;">gas2.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/"><P><STRONG>An ‘air car’ sure sounds clean.  A car that runs on air?  What’s cleaner than that?  But of course it’s not quite that simple.</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gas2.org/img/C655EBA4-5E37-45DC-9317-A0CDC768BB55" alt="ZPM Air Car" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/">The world’s <A href="http://gas2.org/2008/07/15/an-air-car-you-could-see-in-2009-zpms-106-mpg-compressed-air-hybrid/">first commercial compressed-air powered vehicle</A> is currently being produced by India’s largest automaker, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.tatamotors.com/" title="Tata Motors">Tata Motors</A>, who is licensing the technology from European-based company MDI.  A compressed-air car uses the force of super-compressed air to move the engine’s pistons up and down, as opposed to explosions produced from injecting a small amount of fuel.  At higher speeds the engine will burn a small amount of fuel to create more compressed air, sort of like how a plug-in hybrid like the <A target="_blank" href="http://gas2.org/2008/09/11/air-cars-vs-electric-cars-vs-hybrids-which-are-greener/../2008/04/10/chevy-volts-lithium-ion-batteries-road-tested-by-months-end/" title="The Chevy Volt">Chevy Volt</A> produces on-the-fly electricity. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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