Egyptian students build air-powered car

A gathering of Egyptian understudies has outlined a vehicle they say will fight rising vitality costs and advance clean vitality by running on only air.

The college understudies, who fabricated the vehicle as a feature 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 excruciating monetary changes that incorporate profound slices to vitality sponsorships, measures fixing to a three-year $12 billion IMF credit program it started in late 2016.

Mechanical building understudies from Helwan University check the air-controlled vehicle that they have intended to advance clean vitality

The understudies say their vehicle can hit 40 kilometers a hour and last 30 kilometers before waiting be refueled, and it just expenses about EGP 18,000 ($1,008.40) to manufacture.

"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 currently hoping to raise financing to grow the undertaking and mass create the vehicles. They trust they can in the long run get the vehicles to top 100 kilometers a hour and keep running for 100 kilometers previously expecting to surface for oxygen.