Magnetic Air Car Could Be Ready by 2010
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The Magnetic Air Car uses three on-board substations to harness compressed air. The resulting airflow is channeled, modulated, and converted to torque that propels the car.
According to company representative Paul Donovan, the car uses a silicon salt battery that has 30% more mass power than a lead acid storage battery and can charge completely within an hour. The 95 percent recyclable battery can also can be used in a temperature range from -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.
Though the Magnetic Air Car has not yet been tested, Donovan hopes to have it ready for production by 2010. The company plans on building its first prototype at Club Auto Sport in San Jose in the near future.
The vehicle draws comparisons to Tata Motors’ 106 mpg air car, but Donovan says that the Tata Motors design uses pistons while the Magnetic Air Car design uses magnetic technology.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any more details available on the Magnetic Air Car at this time. But if the prototype is successful, I’m sure we’ll hear plenty more about this company.
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Keep up the good work. Please! Here we have another article that it misleading, makes unrealistic claims, basically just a bunch of crap. To bad you can’t find anything to report of real value, so you report this dribble. Well done.
Look people of this site, there is something we as a people of this planet NEED to realise, there are people that can believe that stuff like this can happen, and there are people who have thier heads so far up thier asses they can’t see the sky when they pull thier heads out every now and then, look people from side B (lets call them the negatives) let people believe what they want, I personally believe in the fact that this tech IS possible, and i think its a wonderful idea, as to why YOU can’t see it, i have no idea but seriously stop it, also twin bros, sorry to hear about this if it indeed true, but lemme say that honestly, both sides here (you 2 and MAC) are using thier own tech, your plans MAY be a foundation idea, but its not neccessarily YOUR design, ok now for the other side (the positives) guys kudos for sticking to what you believe to be true, faith isn’t a strong point in modern times unfortunatly, keep on believing in a better tomorrow guys! Finally i would like to say to Paul, I COMPLETELY understand your reasonings for a better future and i agree completely, this world is far too polluted, and these people are the only ones attempting anything that is guarenteed to help reduce pollution ad i would be honored to help contribute with the system, unfortunatly donations are beyond my capabilities, but if you ever need an extra hand lemme know and i would be glad to help.
Dreams….its the only thing we have left that we can TRULY call our own, so never let go
man i hope this is real but if it is why has it not been on the news?or has it? well anyway cant say i dont belive in magnetic motors but this seems very dogey in the fact that if it works why not show the world by having it checked the goverment or some more reliable source? makes me think its a scam but hay its 2009 now so wont have to wait long to see the outcome lmao
Green car incubator rolls into San Jose
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - by Lisa Sibley
Vicki Thompson
Magnetic Air Cars Inc. is the first startup to go into Club Auto Sport’s new green car incubator, which is run by Home 1st Foundation Corp. From back left, clockwise, are Home 1st Director Omar Auld and Executive Director David Staffiery, with Magnetic Air Cars board Executive Director William Bellou and CEO Jim Vye.
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SAN JOSE — Magnetic air NASCARs may not be too farfetched if the vision of a handful of San Jose entrepreneurs becomes a reality.
Club Auto Sport — a specialty car condominium facility for automotive enthusiasts and companies — is launching a green incubator. The Charcot Avenue facility in San Jose has dedicated about 10,000 square feet of its 120,000 square feet to house 13 startups and a conference room for green auto and alternative fuel-related companies.
The facility was founded by commercial real estate developer Ralph Borelli of Borelli Investment Co. and mechanical contractor John Davis, founder of San Jose ’s Air Systems Inc. Borelli said the concept came about because of startups approaching them.
“We didn’t so much go looking for them as they came looking for us,” he said.
Borelli brought on Home 1st Foundation Corp. to operate the incubator after discussions with city of San Jose and Redevelopment Agency officials about the concept. The nonprofit is tasked with helping the startups access resources, grants and funding.
The first company to be housed in the incubator is Magnetic Air Cars Inc. CEO Jim Vye said the company is working on a fuel-less car and generator, which uses a magnetic motor to manufacture compressed air. The air, when converted to torque, propels the car. The company is seeking $15 million each for its car and generator. It has received about $500,000 in funding to date.
Vye said the company plans to build the prototype by Earth Day, April 22. It intends to license its technology to generator and auto manufacturers.
“Clean and green technologies and auto efficiencies are at the front of everyone’s mind. It’s in our best interest to put time, money and effort into this,” Borelli said.
Home 1st is currently seeking corporate and private sponsorships for the incubator, which would normally generate $250,000 in rent per year for Borelli. Home 1st Executive Director David Staffiery said the idea is to name one of the car condos after a sponsor like Google Inc., which would pay a year’s rent for the startup.
Home 1st is run by 12 volunteers, including Staffiery and director Omar Auld. Auld said the nonprofit is dedicated to the research and development of environmentally friendly solutions, not just in automotives. The nonprofit plans to host a fundraiser on Earth Day to display its new partner innovations and incubator at Club Auto Sport.
Its potential success has Borelli planning a second incubator at his car condo club in Monterey .
The incubator has also sparked interest from the investment community.
Mike Dorsey, managing partner at The Westly Group, a clean technology venture capital firm in Menlo Park , said, “The benefit of an incubator is providing lower cost and an efficient way for entrepreneurs to work together and share information.”
Dorsey said his company would consider investing in some of the incubator companies, but they’re looking for extraordinary returns. Yet he believes such an incubator will continue to strengthen the region’s competitive position in the clean and green economy.
“We’re ideally positioned to be the leaders,” he noted.
Borelli calls the site “a convergence of geeks and gearheads.” The club brings together entrepreneurs and people passionate about cars. The facility includes 84 purchased car condos, ranging from 800 to 10,000 square feet, and a members-only club environment. The site is 55 percent leased or sold, which Borelli said is 15 percent ahead of schedule.
Lisa Sibley can be reached at 408.299.1841 or lsibley@bizjournals.com.
Changing the name soon, Magnetic Air Engines, makes more sense. We are NOT going to manufacture, just license the technology. It has been hard going, so hard that we are just spinning our wheels. Too many people do not understand tapping the power of the planet. SO! We plan to build our own Magnet motor and prove to people the thing really works. We ARE going to succeed, I just hope I don’t go broke spending all my money trying to turn around all the negative people who lack vision. Fortunately there ARE enough people, who beleive, that I’ll have no trouble getting them to help with the machine work. I’ll buy the parts, they’ll let me use their machines to create the components. Then I’ll put the thing on Youtube with an invite to come see it in person, provided they bring a CHECK to invest. Once we prove the Magnetic Technology the rest will be easy. I’m down. but not out, this fight ain’t over yet. Stay tuned!
Paul said “I just hope I don’t go broke spending all my money trying to turn around all the negative people who lack vision.”
I suspect that he’s spending OTHER PEOPLE’s money, not his. For a perpetual motion machine to work, there has to be a steady supply of money from gullible investors.
Here is a link of the owner and his former dealings. He just got out of prison for doing something like this.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:kLmMsRI6uN8J:www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17065.htm+steve+ristau+packetswitch.com&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It sounds like the work of Hedge hogs. Taking part of an idea they did not think up and then spinning it into at some point STOCK, that will probably start out at a dollar and then grow and somewhere along the way they will have to depart or hope to stumble upon something useful in what they have borrowed, in this case the pneumatic car, or electric car. An English Company had a very similar start, pursuite dramatics of something like that actually bought a idea that some screwball had stolen from an American and then launched millions of shares of stock with the connections of the UBS banker who bought into it, finally they did learn enough by reverse engineering other people to grow the company. That is what hedge hogs do, that is what these guys are, they root around and dream up great web pages with glossy stuff and with enough bull crap eventually they will get something to grow but the idea is not about the car, it is only about profit and in this case condos. Nothing wrong with a pneumatic car but it is not as energy efficient as they would have one believe. It takes a lot of energy to compress air into a tank with sufficient volume CFM to go any distance. It will probably evolve into a hybrid if they make it far enough. It almost sounds like an English scam…
A wind-up car would be more efficient perhaps if the family dog was to charge it over night with a doggie tread mill with the cat on one in front of it. Now that is something I am sure the Geeks would buy into…. No doubt some english hedge hog will read it and there we go again, perpetual motion….
AMAZING that anyone would believe a scam this utterly stupid and transparent. Note the above demands for “bringing a CHECK to see the merchandise” and the unfulfilled promise to build a car by last month.
And…
NOTHING.
Wow. That’s about all I can say. WOW.
Funding took longer than expected, but no one PROMISED a Car by any time. The application to an Automobile should take over a year. IF the big three decide to adopt the new design, that will take 3 to 5 years for the big three to ‘Ramp-up’ production, do crash testing, gain market share, yadda, yadda, yadda! You know how it goes! We now have funding, as soon as the check clears, I disappear. When next you hear from me, we will have video to watch and that will cover GENERATORS. Why? Because every Representative, from every Country, that saw our presentation asked, “When will you build Generators?” So! We will do generators first because they will start the flow of funds that will provide return to our investors. Then we will have more than enough money to pursue the Automotive Application. I’m not going to do the Pissing Contest that everyone would LOVE to see. I simply plan to prove the validity of the new design, STAY ALIVE, and crush those who doubt. The first prototypes have blown our minds. The final product will provide a gallon of ‘Shut-up’ for everyone with a negative attitude to drink. Nuff said!