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Now we want to tell you about a new kind of smart car.

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Becky Anderson shows us the AirPod, a car which never ever has to pull up to the pumps at a gasoline or petrol station.

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Meet the AirPod. It has only three wheels, two doors and doesn't even have a steering wheel,

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but its creators think this could be the future of urban transportation.

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OK, so this is the AirPod and I've just ran it for a while,

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and as you've seen, it's very agile and you can see there is no driving wheel, just a joystick.

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And it's very comfortable, because you are, like, in the seat,

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just driving in the city with the wonderful view around you, because you are seeing everywhere.

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And it's a real new way to drive into the city.

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The main advantage, of course, is that it's a non-polluting car. You're running for free emission, without emissions.

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And then after it's also the costs, because it's very cheap to use and cheap to buy.

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The world's approximately 600 million passenger cars burn more than one billion cubic meters of fuel every year.

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But father/son team Cyril and Guy Negre think they have come up with a solution at their lab in Nice, in the south of France.

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Which is very special about the AirPod is the energy we use. We use compressed air to drive it.

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This is a very clean system, a very economical system, and the AirPod is very adaptive to the city.

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The compressed air engine works very simply. It is just using the air we've just compressed into a tank.

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And then we use this compressed air to move some pistons into the engine,

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that drive directly the crankshaft, goes to the wheel and the movement drives the car.

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The AirPod produces a fraction of the emissions of standard engines, although it produces similar emissions to electric cars.

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It has some emissions if you compress it using electricity, of course,

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because using electricity, you will have some emissions at the point where you produce the electricity.

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This kind of car would have around 40 grams of CO2 per kilometer, which is a lot less than a normal car.

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But mainly, this kind of system is typically adapted to use renewable energy to compress the air.

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The fastest AirPod will be 80 kilometers per hour, and the range between 150 and 200 kilometers.

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But the main factor is the kilowatt hour[s] used to 100 kilometer[s].

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And on that point, the AirPod is very good because it's around seven to eight kilowatt hours to 150 kilometers.

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And a natural electrical car on the market with four places inside about 11 to 13 kilowatt hours to 150 kilometers.

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So that's the main factor, the main parameter.

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The AirPod has already caught the attention of India's car manufacturing giant, Tata.

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At the beginning, they were thinking that we were fool[s].

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But now, I think that they are [have] changed their mind and we can feel a lot of pressure concerning this car,

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because it is a car that disturbs a lot of big companies.