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Who is not fascinated by cars that can fly? Soon, ordinary people can buy flying car.
Many parties have experimented with making this fantasy car. Even the creator of America’s first car, Henry Ford created the Ford Flivver in 1926, which is a small flying machine.
Detikers needs to know, some flying cars are not commercially successful. Although, the car looks to actually fly.
The dream of a flying car has been made into movies and TV shows. Recently, many parties have invested up to 7 billion dollars (Rp 107 trillion) to produce electric flying cars.
eVTOL is a flying car with battery power, like an electric car that does not produce pollution. Several companies that produce flying cars include Lilium, Volocopter, Ehang, Vertical Aerospace, and Joby Aviation.
So, than you are curious what are the flying cars that will launch in the near future? Let’s look at the explanation of the 7 flying cars that will soon launch, as compiled from various sources, Tuesday (14/3/2023):
1. Klein Vision AirCar
The Klein Vision AirCar is a flying car engineered by BMW and has had an ‘Official Certificate Of Airworthiness,’ or an official certificate of airworthiness in early 2022 by the Slovak Transport Authority by completing 70 hours of flight testing and more than 200 takeoffs and landings.
2. PAL-V Liberty
The PAL-V Liberty is a flying car produced by a Dutch company in 2018 and fully certified in February 2021 by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. Deliveries of the PAL-V Liberty to consumers are possible in 2024.
3. AeroMobil 4.0
In 2018, the AeroMobil company released a rendering of version 5.0 of its flying car. However, in 2021 there are rumors that the 4.0 version will be available in two seats that can be driven and will fly in 2023.
4. Terrafugia TF-X
Terrafugia TF-X is a flying car founded in 2006 in Massachusetts, USA with the Transition concept. Geely acquired it in 2017. Detikers needs to know that this company has previously shown the TF-X which shot 321 km/hour, for future releases.
5. Porsche x Boeing
Porsche x Boeing has not been left behind exploring the premium flying car market since 2019. If you want to choose two companies to collaborate on flying cars, Porsche and Boeing will be the top priority.
6. Joby Aviation x Toyota
Toyota is a car company that sees potential in the sky by investing 300 million pounds (Rp 5.5 trillion) for a flying hexacopter taxi start-up, Joby Aviation, in early 2020.
7.Renault AIR4
The Renault AIR4 can technically take to the sky although it is not a flying car due to the lack of wheels. This drone-style vehicle was created to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Renault 4 in 2021.
So that was detikers, 7 flying cars which are expected to launch soon. You need to know that flying cars have been a dream for more than 70 years. Gradually, the dream car is getting closer to reality.
Many companies have experimented with prototypes that resemble personal helicopters or large drones. Wow, that’s really cool, if Detikers would you like to own one of the 7 flying cars? Come on, comment below!
*This article was written by Windi Yusnita, a participant in the Merdeka Campus Certified Internship Program at detikcom.
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