Combined Pneumatic/Hydraulic Vehicle

虽然电池技术和半导体的创新将继续逐步降低可再生能源汽车的价格，但在未来十年里，这种技术生产出适合第三世界国家使用的汽车的希望渺茫（事实上，在第一世界的贫穷地区也是如此）。至少在未来十年内，电动汽车比内燃机汽车要贵得多（而且将继续如此），事实上，目前半导体和锂的价格正在大幅上涨。寻找替代品的过程中存在着难以克服的重大缺陷：氢；能量密度低，燃料电池甚至比普通电池更昂贵；液压;储能潜力低，产生大量热量，导致冷却损失能量；气动的;系统中的能量损失表示为冷（当重新使用储存的能量时），额外的能量损失在加热系统以防止它冻结。该项目旨在为液压/气动组合系统提供概念验证（POC），该系统使用“空气电池”来存储能量。这个过程可能不像电池/电动汽车那样高效，但它将大大降低批量生产的成本。空气储罐的制造成本非常低，液压/气动泵的制造成本比内燃机和电池电力驱动要低得多。此外，第三世界有很大一部分居住在风力充足的沿海地区，风力空气压缩机是一种相对便宜的机器，可以为这些车辆的用户提供免费的能源。由于这项技术没有确切的汽车先例，因此很难准确地模拟该过程。因此，我们的计划是建立一个独立的POC，使我们能够准确地测量系统的输入和输出能量，这将有助于我们建立准确模拟驱动系统所需的数据库，为未来的发展。

Whilst innovation in battery technology and semiconductors will continue to incrementally drive down the price of renewable energy cars, there is little hope in the next ten years of this technology producing a vehicle suitable for use in the third world (and indeed in the poorer parts of the first world). Electric cars are (and will continue to be) significantly more expensive than ICE cars for at least another decade, indeed currently the price of semiconductors and lithium are increasing substantially. The search for alternatives has included significant drawbacks which have proved to be difficult to overcome: Hydrogen; The energy density is low and fuel cells are even more expensive than batteries; Hydraulic; energy storage potential is low and significant heat is generated, leading to energy loss through cooling; Pneumatic; energy loss in the system is expressed a cold (when re-using the stored energy), additional energy is lost in heating the system to prevent it freezing up.This project seeks to produce a Proof of Concept (POC) for a combined hydraulic/pneumatic system, using an 'air battery' to store energy.This process may not be as efficient as a battery/electric vehicle, but it will be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to build in volume. The air storage tanks can be fabricated very cheaply and hydraulic/pneumatic pumps are substantially cheaper to build than ICE engines and battery electric drives. In addition a significant portion of the third world inhabits coastal regions where wind is usually plentiful, a wind powered air compressor is a relatively cheap machine that would provide free energy to the users of these vehicles.Since this technology has no exact automotive precedent, it is difficult to accurately simulate the process. Therefore, the plan is to build a free standing POC which will enable us to accurately measure the input and output energy of the system which will help us build the database required to accurately simulate the drive system for future development.