The £220,000 ‘flying car’ which makers hope to sell as early as next year
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This minivan is much more than meets the eye, as it has a nifty little aircraft stowed in the back instead of an extra tyre. It looks like something out of James Bond, as you can just imagine 007 pressing a button to activate flight after getting cornered in a seemingly inesecapable bind.
But a factory is under construction to build thousands of them, and a prototype was displayed at a key conference displaying new tech innovations in Las Vegas earlier this month. The XPeng Aero HT Land Aircraft Carrier is all-electric, including the helicopter-like aircraft in the back, which is powered by six rotar blades and can take off vertically.
Hippie couples once used to enjoy driving off in their VW campervan to explorethe countryside. But in a not-too-distant future they could be parking up at a beauty spot and taking a half hour scenic flight over the coast – or at least, that’s what its promo video would seem to suggest.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Flying cars have bene a mainstay of science fiction for decades but have never really made it to the real world.
XPeng Aeroht says it will have a pre-sale ‘coming soon’, is preparing for factory production, and hopes to have the vehicle on the market in 2026 at a cost of around £220,000. Sales would only be in China at first, but if the model proves succssful then they have plans to go further afield.
