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Air cars? Moving into a greener age - sci-fi style!

My all time favorite sci-fi futuristic invention is the hot pink hoverboard in Back to the Future II & III. Second would have to be the garbage-fed Mr. Fusion energy converter in Dr. Brown's later additions to the Delorean. Cars, flying through the air, running on garbage! by 2015, all this will be ours, plus Jaws 25 with 3D trailers...


I'm not sure that's exactly the direction we're headed, but it's pretty close.


Motor Development International, an Australian motor development company, has a lineup of car models waiting to be released at the end of 2009 - hybrid cars that run on air. You got it - they're air-powered, and they drive up to 124 miles on one tank of compressed air, reaching top speeds of 70 miles per hour. For the type of country driving us Michiganders face more often than Melborne city driving, a petrol-air hybrid is being developed for higher speeds and better fuel economy. The air hybrid by MDI expected to be released sometime next year is projected to be able to travel over 1,500 miles on one tank of compressed air and 8 gallons of gasoline, with faster traveling capacities than the air solo car.


Air cars will be available in Europe next year sometime. When they'll get over here to the states...who knows? Maybe our current administration will be more open to some air-car imports than the previous. Either way, MDI isn't the only company working on this whole spacey air-car thing. Winning a gold ribbon for both environmental sustainability and economy, the pneumatic engine idea has been tossed around by Di Pietro Motors, another Australian motor development company headed by former Mercedes-Benz designer Angelo Di Pietro. His air motor boasts incredible energy economy and superb environmental design.


If you want to know more about the future of air car space modules, take a peek at this video on MDI, then browse some of these links on air-car development.




Angelo Di Pietro on Wikipedia

How Stuff Works - the Air Car

Motor Development International


Make way for 2015!