By SOLARLIFE | October 10, 2008 at 07:41 am
AirPOD
Guy Negre, the formula 1 engineer got a boost during economy crisis, Nice
city buys his public 3persons Airpod vechicle, produced at Nice France. The
rent a car will be available all over the city for clean air powered
transport. To recharge with electric compressor in one Hour. The range of
the Airpod 200 km, 45km speed limit, no drivers license necessary. A long
way for Guy ignored a long time.
Joystick Drive
The 3-person city hopper has no wheel, just a joystick to drive the air
compressed car, called MiniFlowAir. India Tata and the US bought the
licensese for the bigger compressed air car up to 6 persons for US. Recharge
over household electricity by air compressor
SOLAR driven Air compressor 0-emission
The moderate power needs during recharging is also to manage by the
portable home solar PV Recyclo Electrobox with 230 V AC outlet, presented
at the Lighting Africa worldbank event 2008 by Agropark. Final Assembly
Europe -Africa 2009. US version 110 V AC available 2009, 250/500 W solar
and biogas hybrid portable energy kit.
ECO Valley Nice-Var, green production
Now in the crisis the Mayor of Nice Mr. Estrosi gives local green
production a boost, buying the car for transport also Nice Airport to city
hotel. Good news in bad times. Green economy makes money.
MDI, the company created by the French engineer Guy Nègre,
has released today a new vehicle to be "powered by compressed
air", the AirPOD, a name that tries to associate the car with
one of our days icon, the iPod, from Apple. As well as the MP3
device, MDI's AirPOD is compact and has an original design. We
just can't say it is exactly elegant or beautiful, especially
considering it should be a car.
Besides the compressed air engine, the AirPOD has another
unusual feature: a joystick instead of a steering wheel. All
controls, as the ones in Venturi Volage, are "by wire", with no
mechanical connection among components.
Considering it is a 2.07 m long, 1.60 m wide and 1.74 m tall
covered car (it looks like a trike, but it has two hidden wheels
in the front end) with room for four people (three adults and
one child), it had to save space for its passengers. Direction
is given by different speeds in each of the rear wheels, another
similarity with Volage.
Very light (only 220 kg for the passenger version), it can have
its 175 l air tank recharged in a mere 1.5 minute (at 350 bar!)
and is able to run up to 220 km, with a top speed of 70 km/h for
people with a driving license.
In France, there are vehicles that can be driven by children and
people with no driving licenses in regular city traffic. For
these people, AirPOD's top speed is limited to 45 km/h.
MDI declares AirPOD will be the first car to be series-produced,
by the end of the first quarter of 2009. It will join three
other vehicles: OneFlowAIR, a convertible, MiniFlowAIR, a small
city car a little bigger than AirPOD and CityFlowAIR, a
mid-sized vehicle able to carry six people. Prices are said to
be incredibly low when compared to similar sized vehicles,
especially if they are electric
Source: motortips.blogspot.com
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