New Air Car: How Long will the Feds Sit on this one?
Forget corn! There’s fuel, there’s renewable fuel, and then there’s user-renewable fuel! What can be better than air?
The Compressed Air Car developed by Motor Development International (MDI) Founder Guy Negre might be the best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units. MDI says it should cost only around $2 to fill the car up with 340 liters of air!
The Air Car will be starting production this year, thanks to India ‘s TATA Motors.
Once again the “infrastructure” becomes the stumbling block. I can’t help but wonder where all those extraordinary profits are going within big oil. It seems, if our government so chose, that they could mandate that at least a percentage of windfall profit be reinvested in infrastructure. My guess is that it wouldn’t take long to have an air compressor installed in every gas station in the US. Meanwhile we take it in the ear by paying $4 or more per gallon.
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I’ve been looking forward to these air cars for some time, but it is my understanding that they may never make it to the U.S. due to impact safety issues. Is there any word on this?
s the ole $$$$$ they want to make and therefore will not allow this car into the US market.Gas people would loose all that theft they do by selling that high dollar.This gas use to sell for .25-.29 galon and profit wanted to be stolen for profit so they say they HAVE to raise the price.Air Car will cost them,so they lie and say unsafe,etc,etc. Get info out and the cost of car,also cuts all that stealing $$$ to from manufactruring,selling that GAS car for 10 times what the market was.Called rape for the $$$.Don’t want to make it an honest place for the us people. Why won’t they want to loose money,because they want to be the billions dollars to spare and they will buy the air car for themselves.GO FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Advertise the AIR CAR in the USA and as the people to put the pressure against the Washington people to help the people,to pay the original prices,not RAISE there prices.EXAMPLE: they will try to raise the AIR refil to $50. a minute for air or something like that.ROBERY.HONEST COST OF CAR<HONEST COST OF CAR<HONEST PRICE OF THE AIR,will help america buy one for that price.
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/ says that they are going to launch this car in 2010 and will cost $17,1800 approximately.
oops! it’s a typo. The car cost would be 17,800 according to their website
The Air Car was supposed to be out 7 years ago and there are no more excuses. The problem is the technology does not seem to match information in the brochures. I wish this would work, perhaps the y should use the rotary air engine that was developed in Australia which is much smaller, lighter and more fuel (air) efficient.
The Air Car has proved that air is not the way forward, our biggest hope is batteries. In fact what did Tata buy, perhaps some world press about green technology.
I would be interested, too in the impact studies. I’m all for buying it and keeping a pan-cake compressor in the back. Go to a rest stop plug in the compressor and get your air for free! Or ask any store for a plug in, I bet most would accommodate you for three minutes. Who needs infrastructure when every building as an outlet?
We need demand first, infrastructure will follow. Most Americans drive less than 50 miles a day. Those of us who live near work could charge this thing at home. Their home compressors generate domestic hot water from the waste heat, pretty cool.
I expect alot of employers will install metered outlets for electric cars and these could be used if you had a compressor on board.
The electric car buffs also have a trailer that they use to push their cars. It is the front end off of a small front end drive car, turned into a trailer. That way you could take these things on long trips.
The problem with getting this thing into the US will be crash worthyness (thanks to Ralph Nader, loved my Corvair) and the auto unions who will fight this tooth a nail, as they did foriegn imports in the 60′s.
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It’s August 2011 and the world is still waiting for MDI to start production of a compressed air car.
MDI has promised production “next year” almost every year since 1998. Over the last two decades MDI has gone through several design revisions, making the vehicle smaller each time.
In spite of many years of claiming great performance, it appears that MDI cannot achieve a reasonable operating range, due to the low energy density of compressed air.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for MDI to start production. They seem to be good at raising investment money, at selling licenses, and taking options/presale orders. What MDI has not been able to do so far is to actually produce a vehicle that meets the specifications they have claimed for many years.
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