XPeng Launches World’s First Mass-Production Flying Car
XPeng Motors has officially launched the world’s first mass-production modular flying car at its new facility in Guangzhou, China.
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Elon Musk Hints at Tesla’s Flying Car, Promising the ‘Most Memorable Product Ever’
Elon Musk has once again stirred up excitement, this time by teasing the possibility of a flying car in a recent interview.
Toyota Teases Us Some More with Another Flying Car Patent
The idea of flying cars is one that has floated around human minds at least ever since cars were invented, but despite Back to the Future Part II’s optimism that we would have invented them by now, it’s clear that many of us have put the idea on the backburner and decided “maybe it’s a…
Jetsons, Here We Come: Terrafugia Takes Step Toward Building TF-X Flying Car
Terrafugia TF-X Image: Terrafugia via Youtube Hey everyone, break out the dog walking treadmills and robot maids, because here come flying cars. Well, eventually. I mean, there’s no rush on the robot maid. Feel free to take your time, is what I’m saying. Like, 8 to 10 years worth of your time. However, despite the…
Elon Musk: “Maybe We’ll Make a Flying Car”
“Also, I might just start breeding dragons.” A lot of people are projecting things they plan on doing for fun in the future today, particularly with the announcement that Microsoft will be dropping The Master Chief Collection in November (if you’re anything like me, then you’re pretty jacked at the idea of getting to play…
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Move over, Goodyear blimp — it’s time to make way for flying… The future you have always imagined may be closer than you think.… We have written a little bit about flying cars here on The… Toyota is really invested in showing off Japanese technology for the 2020… The new cutting-edge technology that everyone in…
Flying Car Impresses Audiences at SXSW
The AeroMobil flying car is weird-looking, but no one will care because it is a car that can fly Photo: AeroMobil Back in October of last year, Slovakian company AeroMobil launched its signature invention—an actual, real-life flying car—at Austria’s Pioneers Festival. Since then, we haven’t heard much from AeroMobil, but now the company has introduced…
Flying Cars Aren't Here Yet, But This Company Wants to Race Them Anyway
We have written a little bit about flying cars here on The News Wheel. Several companies such as Terrafugia and AeroMobil have boasted nearly finished or production-ready models. Others, like Uber, are even planning a future of airborne vehicles ferrying people to and fro. However, no matter how fun the plan sounds, flying cars are…
Uber Partners with U.S. Army to Develop Flying Cars
Uber eVTOL Concept Car Photo: Uber The future you have always imagined may be closer than you think. Uber has swept the roads with its ridesharing service, and now it is taking to the skies. With electric flying cars on the horizon, urban transportation may have a different feel real soon. Benefits and Protection: What…
Cadillac Teases Fans with a Flying Car
Photo: Cadillac Earlier in January, headlines screamed to the world that Cadillac was giving the world a flying car. The world was abuzz with excitement, all coming from the direction of the Consumer Electronics Show. In case you haven’t heard of it, CES is a huge annual technology show held in Las Vegas. Companies from…
Thought Glass Explains Why There Are No Flying Cars Yet
The host of Thought Glass explains why the dream of flying cars is still just a dream For the past 60 years, our country’s collective vision of the future has involved some form of flying cars. During the Cold War, Americans assumed that if we could make it to the moon first, surely we could…
GM Is Reportedly Considering the Potential of Flying Cars
Is this the future that GM has in mind? During the FT Future of the Car Summit in Detroit, Mike Abelson, vice president of global strategy for General Motors, had a lot to say about GM’s future endeavors. Abelson confirmed the automaker’s commitment to introducing 20 new EVs by 2023, while also debunking rumors of…
GM Considers Developing Flying Cars (Again)
Terrafugia flying car Photo: LotPro Cars via CC It turns out that GM is (once again) considering developing a flying car. Earlier this week, GM CEO Mary Barra briefly alluded to the company’s interest in “aerial mobility.” She views it as an extension of GM’s Ultium electric battery system. GM spokesman Stuart Fowle made a…
Boeing’s First Flying Car Test Flight is a Success
Look up in the sky. It’s a bird. No, it’s a plan. No, it’s a flying car. We have dreamed of flying around in cars from the days we watched “The Jetsons” cartoon to when we immersed ourselves into the world of the “Star Wars” film saga. The day our dreams come true may be…
Volkswagen to Develop Flying Cars for China?
Could Volkswagen be taking to the skies in China? Photo: Volkswagen Ah yes, the flying car. As far as highly desired futuristic technology goes, this idea is as classic as it gets. Many inventors, companies, and automakers have at least considered it, if not produced actual prototypes. Even after generations of research, conceptualizing, and dreaming,…
People are Still Working on Flying Cars
The new cutting-edge technology that everyone in the auto industry wants to talk about is self-driving cars. Not going to lie, we all are probably looking forward to the day when we can text, eat, read, and otherwise be distracted behind the wheel and still make it to our destinations safely. As someone who has…
Flying Cars to Take Off in 2017…Maybe
Terrafugia’s Flying Car Photo: Brough Turner Companies hoping to build flying cars are keeping their hopes up. American firm Terrafugia has already started accepting deposits for its “Transition” car/plane, which it hopes to begin producing in 2017. In Slovakia, AeroMobil hopes to finalize its design and start accepting deposits in two years. In the Netherlands,…
AeroMobil Flying Car is “Production-Ready”
The AeroMobil flying car Photo: AeroMobil With 2015 just around the corner, Back to the Future fans are probably wondering where the flying cars, shoes with automatic laces, and hoverboards are. While we can’t speak for two of these innovations, we can now say with certainty that flying cars could be here sooner than anticipated….
AeroMobil Flying Car is “Production-Ready”
The AeroMobil flying car Photo: AeroMobil With 2015 just around the corner, Back to the Future fans are probably wondering where the flying cars, shoes with automatic laces, and hoverboards are. While we can’t speak for two of these innovations, we can now say with certainty that flying cars could be here sooner than anticipated….
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It turns out that GM is (once again) considering developing a flying car. Earlier this week, GM CEO Mary Barra briefly alluded to the company’s interest in “aerial mobility.” She views it as an extension of GM’s Ultium electric battery system. GM spokesman Stuart Fowle made a vague (but supportive) comment endorsing the company’s new…
Bill Ford: Want Flying Cars? Maybe Learn to Drive Regular Cars First, Yeah?
With automakers proclaiming that drivers are as little as five years away from being able to purchase self-driving vehicles, one might start to wonder how long it takes before the focus shifts to another long-gestured fixture of sci-fi transportation and development begins in earnest on the first mass-produced flying cars. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford…
Toyota Granted Patent for Flying Car
Sorry folks, no flying Prius just yet If you’re anything like us, you’re probably disappointed that it’s the year 2015 and there are still no flying cars on our roads skies. Sure, some pretty awesome prototypes exist, but many issues face their readiness for production, as the YouTube series Thought Glass recently explained. But there’s…
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It’s a rare occasion when an automaker can test a prototype out in public without getting snapped by somesuch automotive paparazzo. That Ford was somehow able to test six F-150 prototypes with aluminum-alloy cargo boxes by simply putting them in the hands of fleet customers for the better part of three years has to be…
Toyota Hopes to Use a Flying Car to Light the 2020 Olympic Flame
Toyota is really invested in showing off Japanese technology for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. We already know of the fuel cell buses it will use during the games as well as the hybrid boat it has been developing; now Toyota has revealed what is probably the most interesting piece of engineering so far: a “flying…
Disney Sued for Not Building Flying “Star Wars” Car
Curse Star Wars for giving us this concept but not making it a reality! Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd, Walt Disney Co. The Star Wars films give us an exciting glimpse into the future of technology, but does that mean its owners are responsible for bringing about that technology? That’s what one Delaware man claimed in a…
