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MDI's AIRPod coming to New Zealand

Oct 12th 2008 1:50PM - 22 Comments

Looking like just about every other three-wheeled, joystick-controlled, compressed air-driven car we've ever seen, the AIRPod by MDI will be available to lease in New Zealand soon. MDI has an agreement with IndraNet Technologies to market them in ...

Interview puts 2008 release date of MDI's Air Car in doubt

Jan 19th 2008 12:13PM - 5 Comments

Recently, I posted a video of a BBC News report with the exciting news MDI would release their compressed powered air car in 2008. I assumed such an early release was largely due to Tata's connection to MDI but according the Mumbai Mirror, Tata now ...

Tata Motors: MDI's Air Car "requires nearly two years of work"

Jan 11th 2008 11:52AM - 16 Comments

Recently, I told you the BBC and the Age reported the Air Car would be released this year. After reading an article in the Mumbai Mirror, I am little concerned about Tata Motors making that release date. In the Mumbai Mirror article, Debasis Ray, ...

A new agreement between Tata Motors and MDI bring the air-car closer to reality

Mar 21st 2007 4:06PM - 17 Comments

We have shown you the air-car before, and you may have seen it on TV if you watched the Discovery Channel series, Future Car. If you did, you witnessed them erroneously refer to the possibility of perpetual motion in reference to the air-car. While ...

MDI puts the first AirCar on the road

Aug 19th 2008 12:01PM - 20 Comments

We heard that MDI, the creators of the AirCar - excuse us, the "Compressed Air Vehicle" - broke off all commercial relations with Miguel Celades, who had been carrying its commercial operations for a while. We tried multiple times to contact Mr. ...

Gallery: New York 2008: MDI Air Car, X-Prize competitor

New York 2008: MDI's Air Car uncovered

Mar 20th 2008 11:14AM - 6 Comments

While wandering around near the Automotive X-Prize booth, look what we stumbled onto: MDI's air car. The green plastic-y version that had just been uncovered - I think for a video team's camera - bears only slight resemblance to the rendering that ...

Skepticism about MDI's AirCar FlowAir promises

Oct 24th 2008 8:52AM - 7 Comments

One of France's most prestigious auto magazines, L'Auto Journal, has published a very skeptical and critical report about Guy Nègre's MDI compressed air car, whether we call it the AirCar or FlowAir. The article (not available online) makes ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Miguel Celades, sales manager of MDI (they make the Air Car)

Jun 9th 2007 4:46PM - 26 Comments

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/The_Air_Car_is_Real_and_Happening'; We've had already a few posts about MDI's Air Car, a vehicle which is powered by stored compressed air. Although we couldn't make it to Nice to interview its creator, ...

India's Tata Motors and France's MDI sign agreement to build compressed air-powered cars

Feb 8th 2007 11:01AM - 11 Comments

India's largest automaker, Tata Motors, announced this week it will partner up with MDI of France, a technology invention company, to develop engines powered by compressed air. Tata says the agreement "envisages Tata's supporting further development ...

MDI's AirCar get a new name, now called the FlowAIR

Oct 10th 2008 12:54PM - 5 Comments

We've already been scolded this year not to call the air car the Air Car. The nomenclature is not getting any easier, but hopefully we've reached the last rebranding of the "Compressed Air Vehicle." An update to the MDI website tells us that the ...

New York 2008: Actually, it's not called the Air Car - Q&A with MDI's Guy Negre

Mar 22nd 2008 9:34AM - 9 Comments

The Automotive X Prize announcer used it. We've been using if forever. And, until recently, MDI and Zero Pollution Motors were still calling their vehicles the Air Car. Now, though, to avoid confusion as much as possible, the preferred term is ...

Air Car will be released this year thanks to $30 million from Tata

Feb 14th 2008 2:28PM - 52 Comments

According to Climate Change Corp, the Air Car will be released this year thanks to a $30,000,000 investment from Tata. Months ago, we told you about reports in The Age newspaper and BBC News that MDI, Moteur Development International, said the car ...

2008 New York Auto Show video preview: some of the teams in the Auto X-Prize

Mar 19th 2008 12:06PM - 22 Comments

One thing we are really looking forward to at the New York Auto Show is the official start of the Auto X-Prize, a contest to build a 100 MPGe car with a multi-million dollar prize. At the Detroit Auto Show, the X-Prize people and some of the teams ...

New York 2008: Air Car in the house starting Thursday

Mar 19th 2008 7:33AM - 10 Comments

Tomorrow, MDI will show the Big Apple what an air car looks like. The unique compressed-air-powered vehicle will be unveiled during the Automotive X Prize's big announcement on Thursday. We've been following the progress of the Air Car for quite ...

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