{"id":2742,"date":"2008-02-28T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/what-are-you-driving-with-oh-i-run-on-air\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:07","slug":"what-are-you-driving-with-oh-i-run-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/what-are-you-driving-with-oh-i-run-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you driving with? Oh, I run on air!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was for me a stunning news&#8230; the french company Motor Development International (MDI) is about to start the mass production of a car which is only driven by <em>compressed air<\/em>! They claim the car can drive for 100 km with a single air tank, and producing zero emissions!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/2298495552\/\" title=\"Air Car by m-c, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3174\/2298495552_a70353e91e_o.gif\" width=\"460\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Air Car\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, we often hear about ground-breaking innovations and most of the time the product is far from being ready to sell, but in this case it seems that MDI is taking it seriously. One of the investing companies is the Indian car manufacturer <em>Tata<\/em>. Production should start in September 2008 in France, and a US company is about to license the concept to produce similar cars in the US in 2010. Possible uses for the air car are taxis as well as hybrid cars.<\/p>\n<p>But what makes me really think is that it is obviously possible to create a car which <em>runs with air<\/em>! I mean if this is possible, then I guess that there must be many other alternative solutions available for problems which we are facing nowadays (not only environmental problems). I think the only show stopper for these alternatives must then be companies and lobbying organizations which have the power to decide over markets&#8230; I cannot explain it in a different way for myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, did you get my point? Throw 100 million dollars of research money at them and they will build a car which drives on air forever&#8230; without filling any tank or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Links for more infos:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/104026\">News article (in german)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaircar.com\">Air Car Factories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was for me a stunning news&#8230; the french company Motor Development International (MDI) is about to start the mass production of a car which is only driven by compressed air! They claim the car can drive for 100 km with a single air tank, and producing zero emissions! I have to admit, we often&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/what-are-you-driving-with-oh-i-run-on-air\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are you driving with? Oh, I run on air!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}