Nowadays in the United States, there are 1) --- miles of pipeline, 170,000 gas stations and 243 million vehicles using petroleum fuels. Guy Nègre, the 2) --- and CEO of Motor Development International, is hoping to change all that. He has invented a compressed air 3) --- for cars. The new invention is the AirPod. The AirPod is a small four-wheel 4) --- that uses compressed air to move pistons. It uses a small motor to compress ( 压缩 ) outside air to keep the tank 5) --- . The small motor can not only operate on gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, but also be 6) --- into an electrical outlet for 7) --- . 8) With the demand for inexpensive, user - friendly, high - mileage vehicles that will not cause global warming , the Air P od is getting a lot of attention . Air France and KLM airlines will be using AirPods to transport passengers between arrival and departure gates at airports in Paris and Amsterdam beginning in 2009. Zero Pollution Motors 9) has purchased the rights for the U.S. market and expect s to manufacture 8,000 vehicles a year in the United States beginning in 2011. Automaker, Tata Motors has purchased the manufacturing rights for India. 10) Licensing arrangements for other countries are currently in progress .