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  • From: Jeffrey Newman <jn@jnweb.com>
  • To: permaculture digest <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Air Car One Step Closer
  • Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:32:42 -0700


An update on a recent discussion. - Jeffrey

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Jeffrey Newman

JN Web Design
http://www.jnweb.com/
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PRESS RELEASE
THE AIR CAR IS ONE STEP CLOSER


ANOTHER PRODUCTION LICENCE FOR MDI'S AIR CAR HAS BEEN SIGNED A
production license for MDI's compressed-air vehicles has recently
been signed in Nice, for markets in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and
Panama. The signatory, MDI Andina S.A is a group of business
entities from the Columbian private and public sector.
After a thorough examination of the technical and financial aspects
of MDI's business, the new associates travelled to Spain to meet
MDI's existing licensees. Representatives of MDI Andina S.A. met
official representatives of MDI management in Barcelona to negotiate
the contract, then travelled to France to sign the agreement.

With this additional sale there are now 50 fabrication and
distribution licenses signed in the world, from a total of 400
available. Some of the countries that have signed agreeme ts include
France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, New Zealand, Israel, South
Africa, etc. As fees for production rights are the only source of
financing for the inventor, Mr. Guy Nègre, this new contract, worth
almost 10 million Euros, is another major step in bringing MDI's
Zero Pollution car closer to production.


TWO YEARS DELAY

The question we are most frequently asked online at
www.TheAirCar.com, is "When will your car be on the street?".
Although a number dates have been released to the media in the past,
the programme required some more time to complete. Developing and
productionising automobiles is at best a complex, expensive and time
consuming exercise. Guy Negre and his team of dedicated engineers
have effectively "reinvented the wheel" wi hin the last 5 years and
with the development and introduction of all of this ground breaking
and "new" technology, some delays were inevitable.

Starting factory production of cars that are based on a major
technological advance is not easy, and has been made still harder by
lack of external financing. So far, the institutions MDI has
presented this project to were unprepared to invest in the initial
phase of development, while showing great interest in doing so once
a car was on the road. Delay in developing this technology has
resulted largely from lack of public investment, which has compelled
MDI to turn to private investors.

Despite this, the project has made considerable commercial and
technological progress. The technology has been shown in London,
with the support of the Department of the Environment, and in Sao
Paulo, to an audience of over 600.

Negotiations are now taking place with investors from all five
continents.

The first production plant in France is now complete and Guy Nègre's
latest model, the MultiCAT's, applies the technology in a new
direction: commercial and public service vehicles for public and
freight transportation.


NEW MODELS, NEW APPLICATIONS:

The MiniCAT's prototype is featured in the latest edition of the
'Salon Mondial de l'Automobile Paris 2002'. This model is as
ecologically sound as its predecessors and has equally low fuel
consumption; one tank of air is enough for 200 km, at a cost of only
2 Euro. Like its "sister" vehicles, the MiniCAT's emits only clean
air at a temperature of -20ºC. A main innovation is that with 2.65
meters in length, and with a three seat configuration (the driver is
in the center) the boot is as capacious as a conventional family saloon.

Guy Nègre has also designed a dual-energy vehicle for longer
distances, which works on compressed-air in the city, and air/petrol
on motorways. This vehicle (the RoadCAT's) can travel more than 2000
km on 100 m3 of air and 50 litres of petrol, so can be sed for long
journeys and is not an exclusively urban vehicle. Other applications
of the technology include power generation, compressing air as a
means of storing energy, and powering boats.

MDI also presented the MultiCAT's concept of a zero pollution urban
transportation system which incorporates several important economic
advantages. Consisting of a Driver module and up to 4 transport
modules, (as in a train with tyres) it has been developed with a
view to transporting up to 135 people at a cost of only 2.5 Euros
for each 100 km per module, which could allow local and/or national
governments to offer practically free urban transport to its
citizens. At the moment the sale of the first license to manufacture
the MultiCAT's for the Spanish and Portuguese market is in an
advanced stage of negotiation with a group of investors consisting
of the MDI license holders for Spain and other companies involved in
the transport and energy sectors of those countries.


PHOTOS:
The signing of the new license for the Andean Pact, in Nice:
http://www.motordeaire.com/Img/Firma.jpg
Presentations of the car in Barcelona, Sao Paulo and London:
http://www.todohotel.com/Comu/eventos.html
The new production plant:
http://www.motordeaire.com/fabrica.html
The MiniCAT`s at the Paris auto show 2002:
http://www.motordeaire.com/Img/SalonParis.jpg
MDI technology:
http://www.motordeaire.com/como.html
The MultiCAT's: a new urban concept for transportation:
http://www.motordeaire.com/otras_aplicaciones.html
Other applications and fill-up systems:
http://www.motordeaire.com/estacion.html

WEBS:
www.motordeaire.com (Español)
www.theaircar.com (English)
www.motormdi.com (Portugués)







  • [permaculture] Air Car One Step Closer, Jeffrey Newman, 07/02/2003

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