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From the makers of the $2500 dollar Tatanano, better known as the “People’s Car”, will also come the “MDI Air Car” which runs on compressed air. How about air for an alternative energy…
Guy Negre from MDI Industries in France is the inventor of the “air-powered technology” and has given Tata Motors, the Indian based auto manufacturer exclusive rights to manufacture and market the MDI car and it’s new technology in India. Tata will be the only large auto manufacturer to be given the rights to build the cars. He hopes to get investors to build smaller plants throughout the world.
This is thinking beyond the “Green Car”. This is the kind of thinking that Bill Gates was talking about in his speech about “Creative Capitalism” at the World Economic Forum, where companies don’t only concentrate on the bottom line but find ways to sell to and work with local communities to improve the quality of everyone’s lives, especially the poorest.
By building smaller plants, selling directly to consumers and sourcing 80% of the parts locally, it would:
- Keep the cost of the car to a very affordable price of around $5000 dollars.
- Create many jobs worldwide, not just at the plants but also by the sourcing of parts locally.
- Cut emissions down from having to ship parts from long distances, saving on greenhouse gases.
The car would be made of Fiberglass composites weighing only about 770lbs and there are two possible types of engines:
- Mono: runs on compressed air in Urban Settings.
- Duel-Energy: which has a Hydrocarbon Fueled Burner which means more power and longer ranges. Can use Bio-Fuel or Petroleum based fuel.
The compressed air can be refilled at air pumping stations in about 3 minutes or at home with it’s own on-board compressor in about 4 hrs.
The same CAT technology (Compressed Air Technology) lends itself to other applications such as trucks, buses, forklifts, tractors, electric generators, boat motors, and aircraft.
The beauty of the technology is obvious, it’s good for the environment, but the beauty of the idea of this man, is that it not only helps mother earth but it’s also good for it’s people, in may ways.
Source: ENN: Thank Caron for Air Cars
air car air powered car alternative energy compressed air guy negre mdi air car tata motors tatananoFebruary 18th, 2008 at 08:05 am by bibi in Alternative Energy, Carbon Footprint, Environment, Green Cars
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This is a good one. Air powered car!!!Wow!
Should this becomes widespread, OPEC will surely lose its clout.
Tata Group was recently featured on Fast Company (the mag), as one of the “Worlds Top 50 Most innovative Companies”, for their small, cheap, and green cars. Among other things.
India has a massive middle class population and Tata is going after it with a vengeance. I do wonder though, if the $2,500 car (and this one) will ever make it to the US.
Hmmm??
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Wow, that is amazing! I am noticing that all of the eco-friendly cars are very small. I have 4 children and would never be able to fit all of my kids in the back seat of these tiny cars!
Hey Tara,
That is a good observation, but at least here in the US where most people have two cars or more, it is still an option to own of these cars to do what you need, and then save the bigger car for when you have a bigger load.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hey folks! The air car isn’t powered by air. It’s powered by whatever energy source is used to power the compressor that supplies the compressed air (most likely electricity from coal). In fact the energy losses in the compressor and in the car itself mean that the overall efficiency is relatively low.
Jim shea
Bad news!The Indian landowners,where the factory is partly built want their land back.They halted the building’s construction with massive protest.Was these protest paid for by Big Oil?The CIA?MI5?
Here’s a link that shows that it can and is happening in places like India!
What does it take for change that relieves the poor and middle-class of their economic burdens?
Hey John,
That’s really too bad that they cannot find a way to fairly compensate people for land that will obviously make money for the Plant owners. This could have all been avoided if they had done things fairly from the beginning. Now if Tata pulls out, the region will not benefit from the plant being there and the plant owners will have to spend more money to build somewhere else, who wins no one… Whether it’s big oil pulling the strings or not we’ll never know, but I am confident that their days are counted.
People are waking up to the need for independence from oil. Check out the Pickens Plan
Here is a link to the story about the protests…Tata Motors Protests in India
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