The air car is poised for mass production
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Posted By Jamelia - Tue, Feb 02 2010 at 4:20 PM ESTMDI = SCAM
The MDI company sells only manufacturing license to naive investors, not car...never. It's a scam.
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Posted By Albert Fang - Fri, Jan 01 2010 at 3:18 PM ESTCool
Interesting to hear that there is such a car that exists. If it runs on air, we got plenty of fuel. This in really become a market that can make thousands. Make money online
Posted By club penguin cheats - Wed, Dec 23 2009 at 4:16 AM ESTThere are
There are only a few current technologies which can be used to create true "zero emission" cars: Hydrogen fuel cells, solar power, or nuclear. And of course each of these has their own problems.
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Posted By Ben - Fri, Nov 06 2009 at 9:14 AM ESTAir Car Scam
Yeah, this is an old scam- every year, the scammers pick a nation, claim that production is almost, almost ready to begin, make some impressive claims, take advance orders, take the money, and run.
Don't be fooled. Don't pay money up front. Ask to test drive one before you send them a dime.
Posted By Mike - Thu, Aug 06 2009 at 9:30 PM ESTNot To Be A Hater...
Any vehicle that gets any power at all from the grid can never be truly listed as "zero emission". Since this car requires the air in the tanks to be compressed by a pump that you plug in, it still contributes to carbon emissions, albeit not directly from the car's tailpipe.
There are only a few current technologies which can be used to create true "zero emission" cars: Hydrogen fuel cells, solar power, or nuclear. And of course each of these has their own problems.
Posted By Anonymous - Mon, Sep 07 2009 at 12:45 PM ESTI agree
This is the same thing I have been saying forever. Unless you have a solar/wind-powered charging area for the car, it is absolutely not zero-emissions.
Honestly, I think Hydrogen Fuel is the way to go. It can create the largest amounts of power without clutter, and it works at night, without dangerous radiation. The only problem is the price, which is projected to be down to the middle-class range by 2025.
Posted By MNN User - Sat, Jul 18 2009 at 5:30 AM ESTcar is great!
I think the air car is great! I would like to purchase one of these air-powered cars, in the US if the cars are imported here in the US car insurance. I think this is one of the best ideas to go green I have witnessed. I prefer the air car to the hydro-car. I think the electric car is good, however the car just does not have the range for mileage before needing re-charging. The air car seems to have a far better.... More
Posted By Yao Mung Sing - Sat, Jun 20 2009 at 11:39 AM ESTThe Energy Revolution
I like everything about solar, wind, and other green sources of energy because it could be used to produce energy and compressed air could be a storage system in cars or in homes. The big financial institutions are thinking of ways to process credit cards that will be more environmentally friendly. a compressed air tank may be cheaper than more batteries and easier to recycle, etc
Posted By Anonymous - Sun, May 10 2009 at 12:33 PM ESTCrash == BOOM!
Wow... 300 bars... that's 4351.14 PSI
What happens in an accident when the tank gets dinged? Ever seen those safety videos where they chop the valve off a SCUBA tank? Think air-powered rocket with no guidance...
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, May 08 2009 at 10:08 AM ESTWhoa!
If this is real, and could really work, that would be incredible! This would help the environment so much! And it's cheap! I would buy it when it comes out!! Also they should make them for places like China and India, where the pollution is really bad. I love it :)
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, May 06 2009 at 6:02 PM ESTSame power consumption.
Sure, we will have less emissions from vehicles, but now every home will have to use an equivalent amount of energy from their power lines. Increased demand for energy leads to higher production of energy. Most U.S. power companies use fossil fuels as their energy source. What does this really save? Nothing.
Posted By Patrick K. - Fri, May 01 2009 at 2:15 AM ESTAir
Many preferred to use electric cars for a convenient usage. Also this helps lessening the C02 emission. Toxic assets, toxic swine flu, and so on, but the word have been popping up more than would seem normal. The word itself comes from the Greek, referring to poison that archers would dip their arrows into. (Etymologies are so cool, if you're into that sort of thing.) Right now, toxic is the state of unemployment. Job-hunting is going on at a massive scale; people are clamoring for job.... More
Posted By dan - Thu, Apr 23 2009 at 1:02 PM ESTconcept is great
I think the concept is great and If this is the real deal ,I would like to open up a dealership in the States. I have worked around air powered tools and know the extreme power there is in forced air. if you ever ran a jack hammer you would realize that the hammer is driven by a piston. Please let me know what we would have to do to bring this vehicle to the USA.lets do the right thing. This french engineer did some inspirational work.... More
Posted By sem - Tue, Apr 14 2009 at 7:39 PM ESTBest in combination with solar, etc
solar, wind, and other green sources of energy could be used to produce energy and compressed air could be a storage system in cars or in homes. a compressed air tank may be cheaper than more batteries and easier to recycle, etc
Posted By Logan B - Wed, Apr 08 2009 at 1:38 AM ESTLots of Production...
This is a great thing for everybody for the fact that new car models today are being produce with new features that will have good effect in the environment also to the buyers. It is cheaper and it is not the old ones that much emitting carbon substances that filled the air causing global warming to worsen ever. FASB comes.... More
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Apr 07 2009 at 8:04 PM ESTThis is old recycled garbage.
This is old recycled garbage. MDI announced "production soon" every year or so.
The fact that Miguel Celades is being quoted dates this article as being at least a year old. That's when Miguel Celades and MDI parted company. Acrimoniously. With lawsuits and accusations flying.
Posted By Amadeus Anonomouse - Tue, Apr 07 2009 at 5:00 AM ESTThere is no future for this
There is no future for this concept. It requires extremely light craft and big air tanks. It's good for golf cart style cars, for field and factory use, maybe even as an ATV, but it would never be practical for transportation, except in the case of public transportation that can "refuel" at it's stops (good idea for subways, really). The issues of moisture throughout the entire machine alone is enough to make it infeasible.
Posted By SayBlade - Mon, Apr 06 2009 at 5:20 AM ESTFor those who do not use the old system of measurement:
60 miles = 96.56 km
3,500 psi = 24,161.65 kpa
500 miles = 804.67 km
160 miles per (assume US) gallon = 68 km/L
The article doesn't say anything about cold weather performance. This is a key issue in Canada, northern Europe, Russia and northern US states.
Posted By Willow - Mon, Apr 06 2009 at 10:56 AM ESTOMG
Ok so let me see if I get this straight...
“It can be used in cars, in commercial vehicles and in power generation.”
Power GENERATION? wow this must be some new advancement I hadn't heard about.
"The Air Car works similarly to electric cars, but rather than storing electrical energy in a heavy battery, the vehicle converts energy into air pressure and stores it in a tank."
Not sounding good...
"An onboard air compressor can be plugged into a regular.... More
Posted By w0wie - Mon, Apr 06 2009 at 10:56 AM ESTNice idea... but
Nice Idea but... whats the advantage? This technology was patented first in the 19th century and was used with locomotives in mines. They were found to be lacking in range and if you think about it, there is no fuel advantage here. It costs as much or more to charge up an air tank as it does to fill it with gas for that range, and offers no range advantage over electric cars. Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD, and that's why investors are understandable cautious.
Posted By Anonymous - Mon, Apr 06 2009 at 2:40 AM ESTLord, is this scam still
Lord, is this scam still going on? For road use the physics just don't pan out. It's a scam pure and simple. Compressed air vehicles work for such things as small fork lifts or motorised trolleys in warehouses, but for long distance travel the laws of thermodynamics still hold. Crap range equals no air cars.
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Mar 10 2009 at 11:02 PM EST2002, Year of Truth
Guy Negre, at Paris Auto Show 2002 "Our plant Carros in the Alpes-Maritimes is now fully operational," says Guy Negro. Our prototypes give excellent results. The approval should pose no problem. "
Needless to say, that is what Guy Negre is now saying at the Geneva Auto Show, 2009.
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Mar 10 2009 at 3:53 AM ESTFactory in Italy Already Built
Why wait for a factory in Andorra. There is one already built in Italy, back in 2004.
It's still waiting for parts from MDI.
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Posted By Anonymous - Mon, Mar 09 2009 at 11:06 AM EST2009 year of truth
Indeed some things are outdated. The picture is of one of the early prototypes that will never go into production. But I have been to the MDI stand in the Geneva Car Show only a few days ago. The air cars have evolved and they will be tested under contract this very year 2009 by AirFrance and KLM airways as well as by the city services of the French city of Nice. A second MDI plant in Andorra is under construction and will be finished within three months. So we will soon know all about the.... More
Posted By Jamelia - Tue, Feb 02 2010 at 4:26 PM ESTAbout the factory in Andorra
The Andorra factory manufactures LED lights today, the air car production has been canceled by the owners of this factory.
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Mar 05 2009 at 9:26 PM ESTStill Not Available
This year old article is out-of-date in several ways. Miguel Celades and MDI have parted company, complete with accusations flying both ways.
Tata has NOT made any air cars and says that they are still a long ways off.
What hasn't changed is that the air car will go into production "real soon now". That has been its status since MDI and Zero Pollution Motors announced the e.Volution air car back in 2000, with production to start in 2001 in France, 2002 in South Africa. .... More
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Stores it in a tank huh! Electric cars aren't just the only ones getting attention I see.
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