oliburn wrote:here is an excerpt from an article seen on "tribune.fr"
we understand how MDI is funded:After months spent studying the OneCATS from every angle, Tata has just signed a technology transfer contract with MDI for a check for 20 million euros.
It will allow Indians to manufacture at home and use in their country the compressed air engine born in Carros that they will put in their own bodies.
Iranians, South Koreans, Australians also parade at a steady pace at the headquarters of MDI, seduced by the product and the idea of micro-factories imagined by Guy Nègre. Small production units installed in each country interested in the concept, and in which the cars will be manufactured.
"No transport, no subcontracting, no external suppliers, everything will be made and sold on site, each unit being capable of producing a car every half hour", adds Guy Nègre,
"It's more profitable, more ecological than the behemoth factories of the big manufacturers, it's a kind of franchise system on which we already have fifty options," he said.
Excellent article !! But what are we waiting for in France to go there?
I know, we are waiting for the agreement of the French lobby of the Pigeot-Citroën- Renault car who have invested a lot in the Hdi Cdi + FAP diesel and now a little in the E85, and normally Pigeot has to get into the diesel hybrid , then they will block any new initiative especially if it is manufactured in small independent factories; it changes the whole usual process with subcontracting or production in low cost countries.
We will see if we are still also c.ons in France.
