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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | tesla, automotive
    Elon Musk Envisions Tesla Electric Car as Low as $20K  « Earth2Tech

    Quoted: Shortly after Tesla held a press conference Wednesday morning touting its $250 million planned plant in San Jose, Calif., Tesla chairman Elon Musk presented his vision of Tesla’s leadership role in the auto industry at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. Musk said that Tesla has the ability to accelerate the auto industry’s progress toward the adoption of electric vehicles by 5 to 10 years. Lighting even that small fire could be very important if you consider what a decade of delay can do for climate change, he said.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | tesla, automotive
    Valley Green Car Feud: Tesla vs. Fisker Going to Arbitration « Earth2Tech

    Quoted: TThe brawl between Telsa and Fisker Automotive, the two electric-car startups backed by Silicon Valley’s most well-known cleantech VCs, is heading to arbitration, according to San Mateo court records (hat tip CNET). The court records say that Fisker’s request to take the issue to arbitration has been granted, and CNET quotes a statement from Fisker founder Henrik Fisker that says his company is “extremely pleased” with the court’s decision.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | MDI, automotive
    Does the Air-Powered Car Really Work?

    Quoted: Skepticism is warranted. The company has been claiming that production versions of the air-powered car are just around the corner since 2000. This time, the claims might be better grounded in reality, but other companies haven’t been sitting still. In 2010, Zero Pollution Motors may be battling GM and others for dominance in the clean car market.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | MDI, automotive
    The Air Car Blows Back Into the Picture - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

    In 2000, I wrote about Motor Development International, a European company that had developed 2-cylinder cars that could run on tanks of compressed air.
    Zero Pollution Motors claims that the new and improved air car can now leapfrog any known battery technology. The company’s Web site says, in fact, that its pneumatic vehicle can travel 848 miles (with the equivalent of 106 miles per gallon) on one tank of air, though an asterisk indicates this is “estimated performance and subject to change.”

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | MDI, automotive
    Pneumatic Car: Environmental Bonanza or a Lot of Hot Air?  - New York Times

    Still, Mr. Negre said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that sales would begin in France in the second half of 2001 and in the United States ''not before 2002.''

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2008 | tesla, automotive
    Electric sports car to be made by Tesla Motors in UK - Times Online

    Quoted: A SILICON VALLEY start-up company is to begin UK production of its £92,000 electric sports car.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 16 2008 | mdi, automotive
    ON WHEELS: Driving on air

    In 4500 BC, Egyptians realized that wind can be used as energy. They invented the sail, using wind to power their mode of transportation. Wind has since been the a clean, free source of energy, and thanks to technological advancements, this source of power can be stored.

    French engineer Guy Nègre worked in the aeronautics industry then in the Formula One world where he grew fascinated by the technique used to start race car engines: compressed air is injected into the cylinders to push the pistons down and start the engine.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2008 | mdi, automotive
    MDI 106 MPG "Air Car" - TechnoRide

    Quoted: New York-based Zero Pollution Motors is licensing compressed air technology for the first time to build and sell a car in the United States that the company claims will achieve 106 mpg.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 27 2008 | automotive, mdi
    La voiture écolo  attendue à Toulouse

    Economie. Des investisseurs toulousains veulent créer une usine de fabrication de la MDI « OneCats », la première voiture qui roule à l'air comprimé.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2008 | mdi, automotive
    Philippine News -- Manila Standard Today -- Air car from India -- july24_2008

    The Air Car was developed by a French engineer, Guy Negre, for a family owned company, MDI, in Carros in Southern France.

    It runs on compressed air. According to Popular Mechanics in its June 2007 issue, “Barring any last minute design changes on the way to production, the Air Car should be surprisingly practical. The $12,700 CityCAT, one of a handful of planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units. MDI says it should cost around $2 to fill the car’s carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air at 4350 psi. Drivers also will be able to plug into the electrical grid and use the car’s built-in compressor to refill the tanks in about four hours.”

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