According to Times Finance, news from within the group, Guangzhou Auto is developing a flying car, while industry insiders said that Guangzhou Auto is now transforming to technology, so this possibility is relatively large. Zhang Fan, vice president of Guangzhou Automobile Research Institute, also said in an interview with Times Finance yesterday, “Our research institute will also lay out extensively in future travel technology, and will conduct certain research on multiple travel scene carriers to grasp the trend.”
And you can also see on the recruitment platform that BAIC Research Institute has already started recruiting related talents, including vehicle ground dispatch system development engineers, vehicle test engineers, vehicle architecture design responsibility engineers, etc., with salaries between 20,000 and 40,000 yuan.
Before GAC Group entered the game, the same car companies Xiaopeng and Geely in the flying car has a long time in the research and development investment, Xiaopeng car’s flying car company Xiaopeng Huitian in 2013 began to involve in the field of manned vehicles; Geely in 2017 acquired the U.S. flying car startup Terrafugia (Tai Li).
It is worth mentioning that the day Guangzhou Auto rumors to enter the flying car, Xiaopeng Huitian new pilot plant officially opened, in the other day when He Xiaopeng also announced the Xiaopeng Huitian travel voyager X2 test video, He Xiaopeng said: “emergency braking, large maneuvers, control precision, convergence is very crisp, very with the hand, pointing to where to hit, there is a feeling of playing through the machine. ” According to Peng Huitian President Zhao Deli previously revealed that both flight and land-based functions of the sixth generation of flying cars will be planned for mass production delivery in 2024.
Flying cars have great prospects in the future, according to the report “Urban Air Transportation — The Rise of a New Mode of Transportation” predicts that by 2025, there will be 3,000 flying cars in use, and then their number will grow exponentially; by 2050, there will be nearly 100,000 flying cars worldwide By 2050, nearly 100,000 flying cars will be in use worldwide. However, similar to autonomous driving, flying cars are in a paradox of large market space and difficult commercialization (technology, policy).
