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 ...

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

In an effort to reduce the level of air pollution in busy crowded cities, a team of Taiwanese researchers have developed an air-powered motorcycle, which uses compressed air to drive the motor. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...