Compressed air car The principal disadvantages are the steps of energy conversion and transmission, because each inherently has loss. For combustion engine cars, the energy is lost when chemical energy in fossil fuels is converted by the engine to mechanical energy. For electric cars, a power plant's electricity (from whatever source) is transmitted to the car's batteries, which then transmits the electricity to the car's motor, which converts it to mechanical energy. For compressed-air cars, the power plant's electricity is transmitted to a compressor, which mechanically compresses the air into the car's tank. The car's engine then converts the compressed air to mechanical
Potential energy the negative of this scalar field so that work by the force field decreases potential energy, that is In this case, the application of the del operator to the work function yields, and the force F is said to be "derivable from a potential." This also necessarily implies that F must be a conservative vector field. The potential "U" defines a force F at every point x in space, so the set of forces is called a force field. Given a force field F(x), evaluation of the work integral using the gradient theorem can be used to find the scalar