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He Xiaopeng, CEO of Xiaopeng, said on the CCTV "meet Big Bigs" program that he Xiaopeng will be able to ride in a flying car by the end of 2021 and will see that China's ultra-low-altitude or low-altitude areas will be open to civilian use in the next few years.

He Xiaopeng said that Xiaopeng is making a coupling product of flight and car. This kind of flying car is the same size as an ordinary car and can take off and land vertically in a parking space, which many people think is impossible. Today, Xiaopeng has been exploring the field of flying cars for seven years and has conducted tens of thousands of safe manned flight tests. This is a brand-new field, there is no plan that can be used for reference, we also feel the stones to cross the river, through many detours.

In fact, it is not surprising that he Xiaopeng said that "flying cars will be launched at the end of the year". In 2020, Xiaopeng established a flying automobile company, Guangzhou Huitian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. Xiaopeng unveiled a flying car called Voyager T1 at the Beijing Auto Show in September 2020. It is understood that this flying car can fly at an ultra-low altitude of 5-25 meters and can be used by 2 people to achieve intelligent interaction and low-altitude map navigation at a price equivalent to that of a luxury car. "I believe that one day flying cars will be born and we will be able to travel more freely in the low altitude of the city," he Xiaopeng said. "

In December, he Xiaopeng posted an official picture of his flying car T2 on his Weibo. Calculated according to the point in time, he Xiaopeng declared that it was not surprising to test-drive a flying car at the end of the year.

In addition, Xiaopeng is not the first car company to test flying cars. As far as the country is concerned, in November 2017, Geely announced the wholly-owned acquisition of the US flying car company Terrafugia (after the wholly-owned acquisition, the Chinese name is "Tai Li" Flying vehicle), and obtained the FAA airworthiness certificate on January 22 this year, which means that similar dual-purpose flying vehicle products can also participate in the forensics test for this kind of purpose in the future, affirming the legitimacy and legitimacy of dual-purpose flying vehicles travelling in the air.

For now, however, flying cars are still immature. Flying cars are very different from traditional aircraft. the main working area is low altitude. at present, cities such as Hainan have opened the right to fly in the low-altitude field. In a fundamental sense, flying cars can indeed solve the problem of traffic jams, but some people question whether flying cars also need a driver's license and whether they need to obtain a qualification similar to that of pilots.

In addition, flying cars may have a better flight experience at the initial stage of use, after all, fewer cars participate in flying, but with the increase of products, it will also lead to chaos in the low-altitude field, and whether relevant planning is needed to alleviate this problem.

Generally speaking, although many automobile companies around the world have begun to lay out flying car projects, it is still difficult to integrate into consumers' lives in a short period of time. After all, there are many problems in current automotive products, and as flying automotive products, it means that they have higher scientific and technological content and more fields are involved, and this is not a problem that can be solved overnight.

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