China’s Xpeng Aeroht Conducts First Public Flight of Electric “Flying Car”
The California company that makes electric flying cars is now taking pre-orders.
Aleph Aeronautics’ flying vehicles have a special certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which means the company is authorized to conduct road/air tests on the vehicles, the company said. said in a news release.
This fully electric car (with an expensive hydrogen option) can go up to 200 miles on public roads and is a slow vehicle that fits in a regular garage, but can also be launched vertically into the air. According to Aleph’s website, the flight range is 110 miles.
The San Mateo-based company’s “Model A” vehicles are said to be “capable of moving forward over obstacles until they reach their intended destination.” “The driver and cabin are stable due to the unique gimbaled rotating cabin design.”
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Alef Aeronautics’ flying car launches vertically into the air and can fly in any direction, the company says. (Aleph Aero/FOX News)
Aleph touts the car’s ability to avoid traffic jams and fly in any direction while providing “a cinematic 180+ degree field of view for safe and enjoyable flight.”
Customers can pre-order a vehicle, It can seat up to two people and is expected to cost around $300,000.
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An FAA spokesperson told Fox Business, “On June 12, 2023, we issued a special airworthiness certificate for the Armada Model Zero aircraft. This certificate limited the aircraft to exhibition, research and development. “This is not the first aircraft,” he said. It is of the kind for which the FAA has issued a special certificate of airworthiness. “
Customers can pre-order the vehicle, which can seat up to two people and is expected to cost around $300,000. (Aleph Aero/FOX News)
Aleph first unveiled the car last October and said it has already received a “significant” number of pre-orders from individuals and businesses.
The company said the FAA is working on policy on electric vehicle takeoffs and landings.
“We are delighted to receive this certification from the FAA,” Alef CEO Jim Dukhovny, who co-founded the company in 2015, said in a statement.
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In 2015, Dukhovny and co-founders Constantine Kislyi, Pavel Markin and Oleg Petrofweir decided to build their first flying car. I realized that was the same year Marty McFly drove the flying car in Back to the Future II. Say.
“During a science fiction lecture, Jim Duhovney talks about flying cars finally being possible in 2015,” the website says. “But he didn’t have the technical skills to undertake such a complex task alone.”
The four met at a cafe and set about designing a flying car.
Duhovny said the certification “brings people closer to being greener, making their commute faster, and saving hours each week for individuals and businesses. It’s a small step for planes, but for cars.” It’s a big step,” he added.
Fox Business reached out to Alef Aero for comment.
