REVOLUTION

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In 1999, MDI.lu imagined and created the “Dealer/Manufacturer/Partner” concept by commercializing turnkey factories to manufacture cars locally. Unlike the huge classic assembly plants, the MDI concept promotes many small production factories throughout the world.

Countries will be divided into a number of pre-determined zones.  Inside each zone, one factory will be built to sell the vehicles to customers within that zone. The plant will manufacture 80% of the vehicle using parts produced in the local community.

This concept represents a drastic decrease in costs and the logistic problems associated with the conventional process (stocks and freight of finished cars to the dealers etc...) and not withstanding it beneficial impact on the environment.

In the MDI production concept, the suppliers are chosen in a way to reduce costs, logistics and freights. All the purchases are managed at the MDI central purchasing unit, to benefit from the advantages of bulk buying.

Taking into account the amount of MDI plants necessary to reach the number of manufactured cars in a conventional plant, the MDI industrial concept allows for a reduction in the logistic costs and a decrease in the percentage of CO2 generated in the transport of finished cars and raw materials.

The MDI’s production concept is applicable in all countries except in India where TATA MOTORS is the exclusive licensee.  Tata Motors performed their due diligence of MDI over the course of 31 months, using a team of British lawyers to determine the strength of their patents, and their own engineers to pick apart the compressed air engine technology.  The money paid by Tata in 2007 will keep MDI’s current level of R&D strong for the next few years, assuring that there will be no slowdowns in the further development of the air cars.

Tata Motors, in keeping with its role as the leading company in India for automotive R&D, has signed an agreement with MDI for the application of MDI’s revolutionary compressed air engine. The agreement between Tata Motors and MDI envisages Tata’s supporting further development and refinement of the technology.