The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft Xpeng AeroHT, a subsidiary of Chinese flying car startup Xpeng Motors, made its first flight in Beijing, Yicai reported on June 17.
Xpeng X2 successfully completed its first flight yesterday near Beijing Daxing International Airport. This was the first flight of a flying car in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Xpeng and its president, He Xiaopeng, invested in the eVTOL aircraft developer in 2020, making it a subsidiary of the automaker. In October 2021, Xpeng AeroHT raised over $500 million from IDG Capital, Xpeng and other companies in the largest funding round in the global flying car industry.
The Xpeng past. Two months later, it made its first flight in Guangzhou, southern China.
Products developed by Xpeng AeroHT will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of next year and their market price will exceed 1 million yuan ($137,830), Guangzhou-based Xpeng announced earlier this year.
Last month, Beijing released a draft policy proposing the development of a low-altitude economy as a driving force for the development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The project includes a plan to build commercial air routes between Beijing Daxing Airport and Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province, between Beijing Capital International Airport and Tianjin, and develop high-altitude flying and tourism experiences. in suburban areas of Beijing.
According to the project, in the next three years, more than 5,000 enterprises dedicated to the low-rise economy will appear in Beijing alone, which will increase the city’s economic growth by more than 100 billion yuan (13.8 billion US dollars). .
Source: Rossa Primavera
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