Watch Xpeng VTOL Flying Electric Car Successfully Complete First Flight via insideevs.com
. The final part of the video embedded at the start of the article is dedicated to the Xpeng AeroHT’s first flight - we get to see it drive out of a garage , then it is weighed, revealing that it weighs just under 2 metric tons , before firing up its eight large rotors and lifting off., with the company noting that it even stopped one or more of the rotors in mid-flight to explore what happened in the event of one or more motors failing while the vehicle is in the air.
And if you were thinking that this vehicle looks like a normal car with a huge drone strapped to its roof, well, that’s exactly what it is. Just like with some consumer drones, though, the arms can be folded away so that they don’t stick out when you want to drive the vehicle on the road like a normal car.
You actually still use the steering wheel even when flying, and the experience of guiding it through the air wouldn’t be too different from just driving the vehicle, according to Xpeng. Aside from the steering wheel, the driver/pilot would also need to use a right-hand lever to get the vehicle to move forward and back, up and down, as well as to perform turns and hover.
It is not completely clear if Xpeng is intending to bring this very vehicle into production , or if it’s merely a development prototype for data gathering.
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