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MDI AIR CAR - Models & Details 

MDI Automotive

 Preview of soon to be released Models 
 through Distributed Manufacturing *

FlowAIR (formerly CAT's - Compressed Air Technology)

FlowAIR replaces "CATS", which stands for "Compressed Air Technology systems.
FlowAIR responds marriage Flow (flow in English) and AIR in French and English.
The union is also a pun on Flower (flower in English), which refers to both the
ecological concept of our product to our logo. Source

   Initial release to include:

  • AIR Pod urban transporter

  • OneFlowAIR fun car

  • MiniFlowAIR 3 seater urban zev

  • CityFlowAir ranging from 3 seaters to 6 seaters

  • Including a small utility version

  • Leading to trucks, buses, industrial, farm, marine and light aircraft applications

  Increasing efficiency (gasoline equivalent)

  • Presently: ~2 litres/100km

  • Year 1, post launch: 1.5 litres/100km

  • Year 3, post launch: ~1 litre/100km





AIRPod -  Urban Transporter - no license needed - with 3 mini engines on compressed air, seats 3

  • Length 2.07 m

  • Width 1.60 m

  • Seating 3-4   3 adults 1 child

  • Weight 220 kg 

  • Engines - 2x 44P06 active chamber

  • Engine Power 4 kW

  • Top Speed 45 km/h

  • Driving range 250 km

  • Chassis & Body - Sandwich composite (fiberglass / polyurethane foam)

  • Rear disk brakes

  • Drive controls joystick

  • Stability - Assisted system - gyro module - trajectory correction

  • Electronics - embedded calculator for engine management and leadership

  • Designed for European urban market



More photos click here
OneFlowAIR (formerly OneCAT's) - fun car

 

  • Length 3.4 m

  • Width 1.65 m

  • Seating 3 to 6 depending on models

  • Boot volume 300 litres - 1,200 litres

  • Weight 320 kg - 380 kg

  • Engine Power 15 -22 kW

  • Top Speed 90 -110 km/h

  • Driving range >500 km

  • Rear wheel drive

  • Aluminium chassis made of glued components (strength, lightness, rust proof)

  • Stratified composite double skin body with polyurethane RTM core and fibreglass
    or hemp fill

  • Rear and front disk brakes

  • Drive controls built in the steering wheel

  • One wire electric and command loom
     

MiniFlowAIR (formerly MiniCAT's) - 3 seater urban zev

 
  • Length 2.65 m
  • Width 1.62 m
  • Height 1.66 m
  • Seating 3 people
  • Boot volume 500 litre
  • Weight550 kg
  • Load 270 kg
  • Top Speed 140 km/h
  • Driving range >1,000 km
  • Rear wheel drive
  • Aluminium chassis made of glued components
    (strength, lightness, rustproof)
  • Stratified composite double skin body with polyurethane RTM core and 
     fibre glass or hemp fibre fill
  • Rear and front disk brakes
  • Power steering
  • Air conditioning
  • Drive controls built in the steering wheel
  • One wire electric and command loom


CityFlowAIR (formerly CityCAT's) - family, taxi, business, van

 

  • Length 3.84 m

  • Width 1.62 m 1.62 m

  • Height 1.66 m

  • Seating 3 to 6 people depending on models

  • Boot volume 1 m3

  • Weight750 kg

  • Load 500 kg

  • Top Speed 160 km/h

  • Driving range >1,000 km

  • Rear wheel 11">   Stratified composite double skin body  with polyurethane RTM core and hemp fibre fill

  • Rear and front disk brakes

  • Power steering

  • Air conditioning

  • Drive controls built in the steering wheel

  • One wire electric and command loom


Double-cabin
pick-up-monospace design

Business Concept

Taxi Concept
MultiFlowAIR (formerly MultiCATs) - the passenger transport
This is an entirely new concept in urban public transport.
The MultiFlowAIR is in the form of a train on wheels, being made up of modules consisting of a driver module and several transport modules.
Each motorized module is fitted with a MDI Type-41 engine, with its own compressed air tanks and its own programmable steering (electric/electronic) system which precisely reproduces the steering movements of the driver module and rigorously follows its path.
Each transport module is remote-controlled by wire guidance from the driver module.
Acceleration and braking of the modules are coordinated with the driver module, and positioning sensors between the modules ensure great precision and the maintenance of the distance between each module.
The driver module contains all the controls of the transport module:
door opening, lighting, heating, air conditioning and more.

The driver and transport modules are equipped with the technologies developed by MDI for their non-polluting cars:
  • Glued aluminium chassis.
  • Double-skin laminated bodywork with a polyurethane foam core.
  • Single wire electrical circuit.
  • The modules will be equipped with air suspension.


MultiCAT in Kennedy Plaza


 

                          

AN EXPANDING MODEL RANGE

    A range of 33 models is being readied for commercial release

   The entire design is modular

  • Engine block: 2 to 6 cylinders vehicles

  • Chassis and body are modular enabling a great variety of
     shapes at minimal cost

  Complementary models are being developed for buses, trucks, farm machinery,
      marine and light aircraft applications

  • Engines. power to over 200Hp

  • The MDI Power block can also be retrofitted to existing buses
    and certain categories of trucks



*Distributed Manufacturing
  Set up mini factories in regions where the car is used. No transport, no parts suppliers. Everything will be made at the place of sale
 in production units. That is more profitable, more ecological than the big factories of the large carmakers.

MDI MANUFACTURING DETAILS

NEW BUSINESS MODEL

Smaller, more efficient, cost effective, local, environment friendly

 
COST ANALYSIS


 
MDI PRODUCTION PLANTS
The first manufacturing plant at Carros Industrial Park, near Nice, France
  • Turn- key franchise / license, modular and networked
  • Central facilities produce key components (Engine Blocks, composite high pressure cylinders etc)
     
  • Point -of-sale decentralised plants produce vehicles (Air Cars) & power generators (iPower) 
    •  A 4,350 m2 plant can produce over 7,000 vehicles per year
    • Or 25,000 power generators (= 300 MW of generation capacity) per year

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  • In the future look for a solar element to this process

 

  • Refueling at air filling station at local service station or dept store

 

  • Refueling stations near wind farms

  • Home based Compressed Air iPower units supplying your household, refueling your car and excess generation going back into the power gird’

 

  • Turbines can be installed alongside fast flowing rivers and air filling stations located on river banks.

    Imagine such air filling stations on Amazon in Brazil, and air engine being used by river transport, think what this would do for the environment and help preserve the jungles from pollution!

Special pumps are needed to fill the compressed air tanks. Service station tyre pumps would not have a hope. They are mostly 1 to 2 bar and some up to 3 bar. The nearest is a scuba tank pump but it would be very slow.

  • Tyre pumps 1 to 3 bar

  • Scuba tanks 150 to 200 bar

  • Air Car tanks 300 bar

Compressed Air is stored, at 300 bar, (4,500 psi) in composite cylinders and delivered to the MDI engines
at 10 to 30 bar.
 

Acknowledgements/Disclaimers