Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. The folks from Lazzarini Design did just that and came up with a flying car concept called Hover Coupe. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account And Germany’s Lilium, which is also developing an eVTOL aircraft, in November announced its first US hub near Orlando, Florida. conducted Japan’s first public demonstration of a flying vehicle.

In September, Japanese company Sky Drive Inc.

(TM) have all backed startups in what is known as the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) industry. FLOATING IDEAS: Volkswagen seeks inspiration for its next generation of vehicles from the people. (HYMTF) unveiled plans for an electric flying taxi. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Uber The PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED addition to the front is a bit. Volkswagen joins a growing list of companies exploring the potential of flying vehicles. In an interview posted to LinkedIn on Tuesday, head of Volkswagen China Stephan Wöllenstein told Volkswagen chairman Herbert Diess that the company also plans to develop a drone that could be licensed, which would help it to participate in the future market for individual mobility “that’s taking place up in the air and not down on the streets.” Luxury automakers race to perfect the flying car What's more fancy than a Porsche? A flying Porsche. Flying vehicles would need to operate in crowded airspace, near small drones and traditional airplanes, and would also need a regulatory framework, which could take years. It delivered more than three times the volume of battery electric vehicles last year than it did in 2019, while plug-in hybrid deliveries surged 175% to 190,500 units.īut “vertical mobility” throws up many more hurdles than electric mobility, including safety and reliability. The news comes as the German carmaker makes a big push into electric cars. “Therefore we are investigating potential concepts and partners in a feasibility study to identify the possibility to industrialize this approach,” it added.Ĭhina is the world’s largest autos market and is also Volkswagen’s single biggest customer. In the meantime, find an existing, rubber burning Audi from our exclusive listings.(VLKAF) is looking into flying vehicles in China, becoming the latest automaker to probe the possibilities of personal air travel.Įurope’s largest automaker said in a statement on Tuesday that “vertical mobility” could be the next step after self-driving technology. (See Also: Nissan Vision Gran Turismo Concept to Appear at Tokyo Motor Show) Check out some of Clarridge's other designs on his Instagram and Behance profiles, and be sure to stay with us for more updates from the world of concept cars. Lexus unveiled a working hoverboard in August of this year, and it's just a matter of time until they can adapt that tech to a larger, heavier mode of transportation. While it may sound like the tech for this kind of a car is still off in the distant future, it's not impossible to think that we may see such a car in our lifetimes. The classic Audi rings are prominently visible, while the design seems to have deep roots in the existing R8. No wheels, no axles, just the ability to float along the magnetically charged roads of the future with an aggressively beautiful design and classic coach doors.

8 shared a few images, while his Behance profile shows a few more color options for this concept. Kevin Clarridge of Columbus, Ohio, has shared a few sketches of his design for a wheel-free Audi sedan straight out of the 22nd century. Audi may just be reaching the point of producing electric vehicles, but an Ohio-based industrial designer has an idea for where they should go after mastering that craft.

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