OxyRide

Juniper Foo | Nov 30, 2004

Here's one for the archives of Ripley's Believe It Or Not--a car which runs on just two AA batteries. With that tiny bit of juice, Panasonic's ultralight 18.5kg vehicle can propel a 50kg passenger 1.23km, traveling 65m in 74 seconds. The weird thing is this feat is simply to promote the company's new AA Digital Xtreme Power disposable camera batteries, which utilize a new vacuum pouring technology. We'll be waiting to see how Panasonic's breakthrough cells pit against fuel cells.

Click to see Panasonic's OxyRide battery pack | OxyRide site

Price: N.A.
Availability: Early 2005, Europe, under the series OxyRide
Device: Dry cell battery
Basic specs: Modified alkaline chemistry, 1,000mW continuous discharge results in batteries lasting on average 1.5 times longer than alkaline dry cells

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