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"cars fly into the sky" is no longer just a sci-fi scene. On November 30, he Xiaopeng, chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile, said that cars would fly into the sky in three years' time. A small number of cars will fly into the sky after 2024 and occupy the sky on a larger scale in 2030, he Xiaopeng said in a keynote speech on "the New era of Smart Travel", according to the Financial Associated Press.

He Xiaopeng pointed out: today's cars were invented more than 100 years ago, and for the time being, no new gasoline car company, electric vehicle company or new energy vehicle company can change the whole situation at a deep level. Therefore, the industry must jointly explore the transformation of future means of transportation, while the current smart car is not a real smart car, but only a primary form.

Not long ago, Xiaopeng CEO he Xiaopeng said: "experience low-altitude flight for several days in a row." About 400 meters is the smoothest, and safety is still the most important. " At the same time, there are 6 landscapes taken during low-altitude flight.

Based on Xiaopeng's previous release of a number of flying cars, many netizens speculated on which city the flight experience was, and some netizens called science fiction, and the next day he Xiaopeng blogged again: "it is a helicopter for eastern navigation." now the city flight must be approved for the route.

In fact, the concept of "cars flying into the sky" was made by Xiaopeng as early as last year. Xiaopeng unveiled a flying car called Voyager T1 at the Beijing Auto Show last September.

In December of the same year, he Xiaopeng also gave a new vision for flying cars: at that time, he Xiaopeng shared on Weibo an official picture of the T2, a flying car co-founded by Xiaopeng Automobile and Guangdong Huitian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., and called the test ride experience exciting.

On this year's "meet the Big shot" program, he Xiaopeng also said that flying cars will be built by the end of 2021, and we will see that China's ultra-low-altitude or low-altitude areas will be open to civilian use in the next few years.

In July this year, Xiaopeng Huitian also launched its second flying car, the X2, which is its first flying car capable of carrying passengers.

On October 19 this year, Xiaopeng Huitian, the flying car company owned by Xiaopeng, announced the completion of round A financing, a financing of more than 500 million US dollars, the largest single financing in Asia's flying automobile sector. Five days later, on October 24, Xiaopeng announced the information of the sixth generation flying car on the third 1024 Science and Technology Day, including the time of mass production in 2024, and the price was controlled within 1 million yuan. In addition, the flying car will have two different driving modes: land state and flight state.

The news immediately aroused widespread attention in the industry, and many netizens said: "it seems that the lifetime of flying cars is just around the corner."

However, in the field of automotive flight, Xiaopeng is not the first car company to test flying cars in the water. in addition to Xiaopeng, French car brand Renault also released the Air4 flying concept car a few days ago, which is now on display in the famous Atelier Renault store on the Champs Elysees in Paris, and next year Air4 will be on display in Miami and New York.

In March 2009, the flying car "Transition" launched by Trafoga, Massachusetts, USA succeeded in its first test flight. This flying car can fly in the air or on land. It is also the first flying car in the world.

Earlier in the field of Xiaopeng car layout, there were already a number of car companies involved in flying cars. Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, general manager of Toyota Technology Management Group, pointed out at an event in June 2014 that our state-of-the-art research and development department has been working on flying cars, which can be slightly off the ground without being subject to any resistance and friction on the road. Then, in January 2020, Toyota invested $394 million in Joby Aviation, an air-electric taxi startup, to bet on air transportation.

In November, Geely acquired Terrafugia, an American flying car company, which had previously launched several flying car products. On January 22 this year, Geely Holdings announced that Transition (TF-1), a subsidiary of Geely Technology Group, was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which also shows that similar dual-purpose vehicles can also participate in forensic tests for this purpose.

In addition to the above-mentioned companies, including Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Rolls-Royce have also been involved in flying cars before.

On the return to Xiaopeng aircraft and cars, there have been frequent movements on Xiaopeng aircraft recently. First, Xiaopeng officially said that the aircraft test flight was successful, and then Xiaopeng Huitian announced that it went abroad for the first time to participate in the European Flight Show held in Cologne, Germany. So far, Xiaopeng has released and unveiled a number of flying cars, such as Voyager T1, Voyager X2 and so on. And officials also announced that Voyager X2 plans to fly in Europe in the first half of next year. Now Xiaopeng Chairman CEO he Xiaopeng also said that cars will fly into the sky in three years' time. For the following year, Xiaopeng also said that he will begin to explore RoboTaxi in the second half of 2022. Xiaopeng said that driverless taxis and driverless operations may take several years, but are confident to explore.

As Xiaopeng CEO he Xiaopeng said before: "the coupling product of flight and car involves a new field, and there is no plan to learn from it. Xiaopeng Huitian is also" crossing the river by feeling the stones. "at present, the field of flying vehicles is still faced with many problems, including the policy of flying in low-altitude airspace is not allowed, the flying of drones need to be declared in advance, and so on. Whether flying cars will keep the appointment in 2024 is still a question mark. Let's leave the question to time to verify.

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