Collaborate Disseminate
After 14 years of development, the Samson Switchblade – a fast, street-legal three-wheeler that converts at the touch of a button into a 200-mph (322-km/h) airplane – has been approved for airworthiness by the FAA. The team is now preparing for flight … Continue reading Samson Switchblade flying car is finally ready for takeoff
Japanese eVTOL company SkyDrive has announced it’s going into partnership with Suzuki, as it works toward the development and full-scale production of a “compact, two-seating electric-powered flying car,” which it hopes to debut at the Osaka World Expo… Continue reading Suzuki joins SkyDrive’s push to build an eVTOL flying car by 2025
After taking to the air for the first time just last year, Klein Vision’s AirCar has now aced its first inter-city flight. The aircraft/road vehicle hybrid took off from Nitra airport early on June 28, landing in Bratislava a little over half an hour l… Continue reading Klein Vision’s transforming AirCar makes first inter-city flight
We’ve been hearing about Matt Pearson’s dream to race multirotor flying cars for a few years now, with startup Alauda Aeronautics making its international public debut in 2019 and an awesome-looking full-sized electric racer revealed earlier this year…. Continue reading Airspeeder flying race car takes to the air over South Australian desert
Lithium-ion batteries do a great job of powering smartphones, laptops and even cars, but electric flight presents some unique challenges for this go-to solution for energy storage. Scientists have now demonstrated a new type of lithium-battery that lev… Continue reading Purpose-built eVTOL battery promises 50-mile trips on a 10-minute charge
We have to admit that flying cars still sound pretty cool. But if we’re ever going to get this idea off the ground, there’s a truckload of harsh realities that must be faced head-on. The most obvious and pressing issue …read more
Continue reading World’s First eVTOL Airport Will Land This November
We first heard of Alauda’s plans for a flying electric racing vehicle series in late 2017, when the Australian startup’s Matt Pearson launched a Kickstarter to gauge interest and raise funds. The team announced its international public debut in mid-201… Continue reading Alauda unveils full-sized Airspeeder Mk3 electric flying race car
Car racing is quickly evolving to embrace new technologies through series like Formula E and Extreme E. It may even find a home on the Moon in the near future. French startup MACA is looking to add flying cars to the list of emerging technologies activ… Continue reading Hydrogen-electric flying car looks to take F1 racing airborne
Multirotor aircraft enjoy many intrinsic advantages, but as machines that fight gravity with brute force, energy efficiency is not considered among them. In the interest of stretching range, several air-ground hybrid designs have been explored. Flying cars, basically, to run on the ground when it isn’t strictly necessary to be …read more
Continue reading One Wheel Is All We Need To Roll Into Better Multirotor Efficiency
Remember the Aeromobil flying car that hit Top Marques Monaco back in 2017? The Aeromobil’s original inventor and designer Stefan Klein left that company in 2016, and has been working on another design with a new company called Klein Vision, also based… Continue reading Klein Vision celebrates maiden flight of its transforming AirCar