"Remember when MIT flew that tiny airplane using nothing but ionic wind back in 2018? Steven Barrett and his team managed to get their 2.45-kilogram craft airborne for 60 meters using electroaerodynamic propulsion, basically ionizing air molecules and pushing them backward to create thrust. The plane looked like a weird skeletal kite with a bunch of thin wires, hardly the stuff of sci-fi dreams, but it proved that you could move through air without any moving parts, fuel, or exhaust."
"Fast forward six years and Korean designer Hanum Jeong has taken that same ionic propulsion concept and wrapped it in what might be the most gorgeous automotive fever dream I've seen all year. The MG EXE ION concept celebrates the British brand's centennial with a design so radical it makes the Vision GT cars look conservative. Jeong hasn't just sketched a pretty car and slapped some sci-fi labels on it."
MIT researchers demonstrated ionic-wind flight in 2018 when a 2.45-kilogram craft flew 60 meters using electroaerodynamic propulsion by ionizing air molecules and accelerating them rearward to produce thrust. The prototype used thin wires and required about 40,000 volts to generate 3.2 newtons of thrust, achieved a 12-second tethered flight, and depended on a ground-based power supply. Designer Hanum Jeong applied the ionic-propulsion concept to a concept car, integrating teal lighting, rear tunnels, wing elements, and a central disc to imply ionization, large ionization area, and active airflow manipulation as part of the MG EXE ION centennial design.
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