GUANGZHOU, China — HT Aero, an affiliate of Chinese language electrical automobile maker Xpeng Inc., launched a brand new flying automotive on Sunday that it says can even drive on roads.
The corporate says it plans for a rollout in 2024.
HT Aero’s automobile can have a light-weight design and a rotor that folds away, the corporate mentioned. That can enable the automotive to drive on roads after which fly as soon as the rotors are expanded.
The automobile can have numerous security options together with parachutes, the corporate mentioned.
HT Aero is backed by Xpeng and its founder He Xiaopeng. The corporate raised $500 million final week from numerous exterior buyers together with high-profile enterprise capital corporations.
Flying automobiles — additionally known as electrical vertical take-off and touchdown autos — have garnered numerous curiosity from automakers and start-ups.
Nonetheless, there are a selection of challenges for these autos to change into wide-scale together with regulation and issues of safety.
HT Aero’s new land and air automobile was launched at Xpeng’s Tech Day the place the corporate additionally took the wraps of the most recent model of its superior driver help system known as XPILOT 4.0.