From Electric Vehicles to Flying Cars

CGTN Europe

The future of transportation is taking flight—literally! 🚁🚗 Xpeng’s Land Aircraft Carrier deploys a two-person drone, bringing flying cars closer to reality.   With China’s EV boom fueling innovation, could mass-produced flying vehicles be next? We take a virtual test flight and hear from the creators making it happen.   Would you take to the skies in one of these?   #ShockingTheSystem #ElectricVehicles #ChineseEV

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00:00Wow. I would like one of these in the boot of my car, I have to say. That's incredible.

00:13This is what Xpeng calls the land aircraft carrier. Out of it comes this super-sized

00:19drone which can carry two people. We didn't get it off the ground, but the man who created

00:27it told me it's easy to learn to fly. Wow. I did at least get to fly it, virtually.

00:43So today we are going to experience the manual mode. Okay. So you can test out how good I

00:51can fly it. Let's see. Okay. And if I crash? Normally, no. Okay, normally no. The first

01:00time for everything. Just don't land in the water or in the mountains. Is it mountainous

01:06where we are? Yeah. Okay. Xpeng Aero HT just started building a factory to produce 10,000

01:12of these. The founder says they've reached that point thanks to all the work done building

01:17China's EV industry.

01:47Xpeng Aero HT just started building a factory to produce 10,000 of these. The founder says they've reached that point thanks to all the work done building China's EV industry.

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