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(Elbil24): – Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
The well-known quote is taken from Doc in Back to the Future, as he was navigating his flying DeLorean from 1985 to 2015.
We were definitely not that far in 2015, but maybe it will finally become common to see flying cars in the sky in a few years. But then we are probably talking more about a mixture of car and helicopter, or passenger drones as they are often called.
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Many prototypes
And yes, there are several such already, in fact several that work satisfactorily. Already in 2016, the Chinese drone manufacturer Ehang demonstrated one such, with eight motors each with its own rotor.
We ourselves were present when they showed it during the big electronics fair in Las Vegas this year.
The drone had a top speed of 96 km per hour, and could carry a person weighing up to 100 kilograms for about 3 miles before the battery had to be charged.
It was actually supposed to be demonstrated in a car park in the city during the fair days. Unfortunately, the Chinese were denied boarding by the local air traffic authorities in Las Vegas.
But since then, a lot has happened on several fronts.
Earlier this year, for example, Xpeng showed off sin passenger drone X2, which has room for two people with a total weight of up to 200 kilos. This too has four arms and eight rotors, a top speed of 130 km and a range of 7 miles.
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Good capacity and range from VW
Now several of the really big companies have also opened their eyes to this method of transport, the latest being Volkswagen – which has just presented its first passenger drone, which they have been working with since 2020.
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The drone, which is still at the prototype stage, has been named “V.MO Flying Tiger” and has been developed by Volkswagen’s division in China. It has ten electric motors, eight horizontal rotors that will lift the drone into the air, and two vertical ones that will provide propulsion.
The concept will undergo a series of tests and improvements over the next year, and the goal is for the finished product to be able to carry four passengers – plus luggage, for 60 minutes. It should be enough to transport the passengers a full 200 kilometres.
Then it starts to get interesting.
