Green Options » air pod http://greenoptions.com/tag/air-pod Posts tagged 'air pod' Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Edmunds Inside Line Gets Behind The Wheel Of The AIRpod http://gas2.org/2009/06/25/edmunds-inside-line-gets-behind-the-wheel-of-the-airpod/ http://gas2.org/2009/06/25/edmunds-inside-line-gets-behind-the-wheel-of-the-airpod/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:51 +0000 Christopher DeMorro http://gas2.org/2009/06/25/edmunds-inside-line-gets-behind-the-wheel-of-the-airpod/

While the MDI AIRpod is hardly “new news”, nary an auto journalist has managed to get behind the joystick (no steering wheel here) to test the viability of this odd-yet-innovative vehicle. In case you haven’t heard, the MDI AIRpod is a concept vehicle designed to run solely on compressed air as means of transportation, though no working models had been released to the press. But as the AIRpod nears actual production, MDI has begun inviting journalists to take a whirl in a prototype model, and Edmunds Inside Line was first in the queae it seems.

The AIRpod they drove was only a prototype, so you can take from their impressions what you will. But, just having the AIRpod on the road is a major first step towards actual commercialization of what was once just a wacky concept.

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