A group of Egyptian understudies has planned a vehicle they say will fight rising vitality costs and advance clean vitality by running on only air.
The college understudies, who developed the vehicle as a component of their graduation venture from Helwan University simply outside Cairo, are revealing a model one-individual vehicle that keeps running on packed oxygen.
The go-kart-like vehicle comes as Egypt pushes ahead with agonizing financial changes that incorporate profound slices to vitality sponsorships, measures attached to a three-year $12 billion IMF advance program it started in late 2016.
The understudies say their vehicle can hit 40 kilometers an hour and last 30 kilometers before waiting to be refueled, and it just expenses around 18,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,008.40) to fabricate.
"The operational cost of the vehicle… will be nothing. You are fundamentally utilizing packed air. You are not paying for fuel and furthermore, you needn't bother with cooling," said Mahmoud Yasser, an understudy who helped plan it.
The group is presently hoping to raise financing to extend the undertaking and mass deliver the vehicles. They trust they can, in the long run, get the vehicles to top 100 kilometers an hour and keep running for 100 kilometers previously expecting to surface for air.