Running on Air, the MDI Airpod

Interview with Cyril Nègre (Head of Design Office MDI) during the Schoner Vervoer Toer in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on 20 september 2009. He talks about a small aircar called Airpod and the new One Flow Air car.

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Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• aircar
• renewable energy
• airpod
• mdi
• one flow aircar

[fizzguts]

Google e.volution south africa then explain why we should expect 10 years of broken promises to suddenly be keep.

Remember in February these short range inefficient slow speed mobile chicanes were being tested at Air France

Yea right

This is a machine powered by suckers

Tell you what put up a link to an independent TEST that confirms MDI's ludicrous claims and I'll take down my posting

Hello?

Silence?

Sigh

[FlyByCable]

Warning : MDI is a scam

Do not invest in this scam. You just can't beat elementary physics and thermodynamics. This car will never run but will make money through selling licences.

[anothercrazyusername]

It is now November 2011. In this video of late 2009 MDI claims that production will start in early 2010.

We are still waiting for production to start, as we have been waiting ever since MDI announced in 1999 that production would start in 2000.

[anothercrazyusername]

@DanFrederiksen -- the 15km range was mentioned by a KLM official inadvertently during a presentation. Others with contacts with MDI received confirmation, and via some true believers on a French air car forum MDI said that the low range was because the prototypes were more than twice as heavy as the production car would be. Of course, MDI had earlier said that the prototypes were final prototypes except for the size of the reservoir.

It's hard to keep the MDI story straight.

[DanFrederiksen]

@Charlieutube99 that's also what I would expect from doing the math on compressed air. it's not a good energy storage medium.

how do you know its range?

[BrucePBigelow]

ROFL at the idiots who gave this guy money. What's the french word for "Suckers!"

[Charlieutube99]

In September 2009 MDI says production and sales will start in January or February 2010. Then production was to be May 2010. Then November 2010.  Then MDI was to build a factory for distributor Catecar in Switzerland and start production in March 2011.

Nothing has happened. No cars have been built. The MDI website has no schedule of when they hope to finish development.

Sad.

[DoYouThinkForUrselF]

100 years of combustion engine and we can't figure out better way? What do i have sucker written on my forehead? Sick evil world.

[Charlieutube99]

@marcopolo245061 You seem to have much knowledge about the Airpod.

It is still not in production. What happened?

[Charlieutube99]

One year later, we are still waiting for production to start.

Same status as each and every year over the last 10+ years ---- production will start "next year".

In September 2011, we will probably still be waiting for production "next year'.

We have learned that the prototype Airpod has a range of less than 15km. That is an improvement over the 2003 model that ran out of air after 7.22km.

[Topazman12]

I hope MDI is remedying the comments. Why would the demo car work while the manufactured air car run such a short distance? To learn to improve, build sell and get feedback. Then remodel. US needs this car.

[daswada9]

@Charlieutube99 the oil company's are trying to stop them i think,because they will loose allot of money !