I heard about a car transmission that included a compressed air capability to aid in getting the car moving initially, accelerating, etc., saving gas. This story was around about the same time that hybrid cars were first being developed. The story was the transmission would only add an additional …

Hybrid Cars powered by compressed air

MTraveler April 11, 2012, 6:24pm 6

Lest we think the OP complete crazy. Ford tried it.

and so did UPS.

There are a lot of reasons it didn’t pan out.