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Take a look at this scene. Thousands of fans cheering you as you zoomed around in your go-cart car. You are driving at the speed of 300 kmph. Interestingly, the engine of your go-kart doesn’t have fuel tank. You are driving an air powered engine cart.

It is not a movie scene, but this is a reality. Five mechanical engineering students from Dalhousie University in the US have already started the journey down that road. David Alderson, Scott Allan, David Langille, Michael Roy and Dave Spencer were inspired by air powered car concepts and decided to develop a compressed air engine of their own.

In tests, the air-powered vehicle performed comparatively to the electric-powered carts in use.  The greatest drawback however is that the cylinder runs out of air quickly. However, the students believe the engine will improve with refinements and could be a successor to conventional fuel-powered engines.