Originally scheduled for a one-year run, Volkswagen says that it will now sponsor the program indefinitely. Thanks to the strong response, Volkswagen is extending the People's Car Project. Instead of a phone, the concept uses a touchscreen-equipped vehicle key to provide information about the car, such as fuel level and security. The Smart Key is a twist on current generation smartphone integration.
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The Music Car uses a series of exterior OLED lights to create light shows in tune to the driver's music - kind of the opposite of the "safe cars" that Loasby mentions. The other two ideas don't quite inspire the "futuristic nostalgia" of the Hover Car. "The trend is towards safe cars that can easily navigate overcrowded roads and have a personal, emotional and exciting design." "The creative ideas from the ‘People's Car Project' give us a valuable insight into the wishes of Chinese drivers," Simon Loasby, Head of Design at Volkswagen Group China, said. Volkswagen defines the car as an all-electric two-seat city car that hovers just above the ground and travels along electromagnetic roadways.
The Hover Car is the concept that catches our attention the most, if only for the fact that it brings back childhood memories of the hoverboard that Marty McFly used as an escape vessel in Back to the Future II. It developed concept cars around the ideas and is displaying them at the Beijing Motor Show. "We are no longer just building cars for, but also with customers and at the same time initiating a national dialog which gives us a deep insight into the design preferences, needs and requirements of Chinese customers."įrom the initial 119,000 ideas, Volkswagen picked three of its favorites. "The ‘People's Car Project' in China marks the beginning of a new era in automobile design", Luca de Meo, Director of Marketing, Volkswagen Group said. Since debuting the project in China nearly a year ago, Volkswagen has inspired 33 million website visitors and 119,000 unique ideas for possible products and technologies. The Hover Car is one of three top concepts that Volkswagen procured through the crowd-sourced "People's Car Project" (PCP). But a Volkswagen that hovers a few feet over the ground? That channels a mix of Back to the Future and The Jetsons that adds some excitement to the personal mobility segment. The Segway was never exactly an enviable ride, and newer concepts like the GM EN-V aren't any better. Flying cars will become a branch of cars in the future.The world of personal mobility transporters doesn't bring a whole lot of glamor. In the past eight years, the XPeng Huitian team’s main focus has been on aircraft, but now and for many years to come, it will focus on the coupling of aircraft and cars. “A flying car should be a smart electric vehicle in the city and a low-altitude aircraft in the suburbs. “The flying car in our eyes is not an aircraft,” he said. XPeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng spelled out his vision for flying cars earlier this year. The company has also showcased the X2 which shares much of its design DNA with XPeng Motors’ P7 sedan, essentially a challenger to the Tesla Model 3. HT Aero has been actively pursuing the idea of a flying car for several years, but really started to gain momentum with the Voyager X1, which was revealed in 2021 and appears to be the inspiration for what is featured in the latest video. The eVTOL footage suggests that the steering wheel is used to control turns to the left and the right, while a throttle to the right of the wheel is responsible for moving the machine forward and back, as well as up and down. In a caption accompanying the video, the company said: “ We hope that the final driving mode is as simple and easy to learn as a car.”Īlthough the design of the aircraft itself is a long way from what might be feasibly expected from a production flying car, there are some obvious links – most particularly the steering wheel, which has been sourced from XPeng Motors. The latest video of an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft was clearly intended to illustrate how a flying car would be operated. (LINK WHEN LIVE)īut HT Aero, which is also known as XPeng Huitian, has ambitious plans of its own, having promised to deliver a flying car by 2024 and previewed what it has in store with some dramatic videos on YouTube over the past year. HT Aero is based in Guangzhou and part of the wider empire of automaker XPeng, which is delivering such diverse products as Tesla-rivaling electric vehicles and bizarre domestic robotic ponies. Ever wondered what it would be like to control a flying car? An amazing video posted online by Chinese urban air mobility company HT Aero has provided some fascinating insight.
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