Friday, November 5, 2021

Flying sports car could be in skies by 2024

J. George Gorant (Robb Report, MSN, 11/2/21); Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

It’s not quite Michael J. Fox’s DeLorean, but a Chinese automaker with an eVTOL division showed off illustrations of a street-legal car that converts to a helicopter at the push of a button.

It’s pretty awesome looking, and the company, HT Aero, says it will hit the streets in 2024.

There’s precious little information available so far and enough unanswered questions to leave skid marks on the brain, but the project does boast two critical assets, history and money. HT Aero, a division of XPeng, has produced five versions of its multicoptor eVTOL and, it says, conducted more than 15,000 test flights. It also recently announced that it had raised $500 million in financing. More

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