XPeng plans to mass produce its “flying car”

It’s not actually a flying car, but rather a module that fits inside a caror more precisely a van. It is on the occasion of the 15th^e China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition that the manufacturer and its subsidiary presented the fully automated separation and reconnection between ground and air modules.

At first glance, this is a imposing electric utility vehicle (5.5 m long by 2 m wide) which has six driving wheels. It hides an eVTOL aerial module built in carbon fiber and composed of six rotors.

According to XPeng, a completely novice pilot could master your driving in five minutes only and reach expert level in three hours. However, it benefits from an autonomous mode including route planning, navigation and the ability to return to your starting point with a single button press. The novelty lies above all in the fact that the terrestrial module can free the drone and bring it back to its anchor point automatically from a smartphone.

10,000 units per year

A specially dedicated factory will be built next year for marketing from 2026. Xpeng is therefore planning a annual capacity of 10,000 units. So-called low-altitude flights in China will begin in earnest this year, but sector specialists predict great development in this sector. If Europe will not see this type of machine in the sky this year, the flying car will become a reality in China.