XPeng Huitian, the Chinese division of XPeng Motors, has unveiled a prototype of its new flying car with autonomous capabilities. Dubbed the Voyager X2, the electric vehicle is the company’s fifth generation flying car, which it says takes it one step closer to a more widely available and safe flying car.
Toyota, known for its environmentally friendly hybrid electric cars and the high-tech technologies and standardised active safety systems they feature, agreed back in May 2017 to allow a team of engineers to start developing the flying car technology.
While we were busy seeing car manufacturers and governments around the world trying to switch to electric cars, no one was able to realise a key element of a sci-fi future: the flying car. But it seems that it’s not as far away as we think, but it’s going to be expensive as hell.
The electric device, called X2, can travel for 35 minutes on a single charge. What was just a fiction a decade or two ago is now seen as the future of urban transport. This time it’s not an electric car, but a flying car, which is being developed by many companies at the same time. Some of them have already achieved quite some success.
The electric flying car is really two innovations in one, and could remain in the realm of fiction alongside the existing batteries. However, using newly developed fast-charging lithium-ion cells, such a four-wheeler could travel up to 80 kilometres.
What makes the 142nd landing of Klein Vision’s futuristic transport vehicle so special is that the AirCar was the first to complete an inter-city journey. Starting from a grass runway near Nitra this week, Klein’s Vision AirCar car/airplane hybrid arrived in Bratislava in 35 minutes.







