Xpeng has a hybrid six wheel van. It has a gasoline and electric engine. It has automated deployment of a two passenger eVTOL. A vertical takeoff and landing two person vehicle.
The van can hold five people and is about the size of a Cybertruck.
The vehicles cost about $280,000.
• Starting price: $280,000
• They’ve received 2,000 orders
• Takes 5 minutes to put the aircraft back in the carrier
• Aircraft cabin fits two people
• Supports 5-6 short flights on a full charge. The “Mothership” can charge the aircraft’s battery from 30 to 80% in 18 minutes.
• Deliveries of this massive vehicle are scheduled for 2026. Annual production capacity of 10,000 units.
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You’d have to integrate them so that I could just stay in the flying portion while driving the ground vehicle, and maybe even deploy while in motion. You’re awfully vulnerable during the deployment phase, aren’t you? Tom Cruise would NOT approve the current design.
And if you could make the cockpit a drop out motorcycle, too, like the Thunderbird Shadow, that would be cool.
https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbird_Shadow
And then make it fossil fuel powered, for better range….
I like the safety features on the air module.
Two things fall out of the sky: bird poop and idiots
ok that’s fun. Add a couple sleeper capsules, mini-kitchen, and some kind of waste disposal within a 200 cu.ft internal module – make it 4×4, and you have the perfect bug-out-mobile.
Baby helicopters have been oddly popular lately, haven’t they?