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Author: Chen Yi
As soon as the news of "Fengfei Aviation Manned Vehicle V1500M successfully completed the first flight test" came out, the topic of "car in the sky" once again became the focus of fans after dinner.
According to the statistics of Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank, there are currently about 200 companies in the world engaged in the research and development and production of manned aerial vehicles, but because the related products have extremely high technical requirements, there are not many players who can achieve significant results in the market segment. In addition to Fengfei Airlines, only a few companies such as Xiaopeng Motors, Lillium, and AeroMobile have handed over qualified answers. Today we will start from the existing foundation and take a plate of those manned aerial vehicle products on the market that are worth paying attention to.
(1) Xiaopeng Motors
Product: Xiaopeng Huitian sixth generation flying car
Features: Air and land dual use
At the third science and technology day event of "Intelligence First, Exploration Infinity" held on October 24, Xiaopeng Automobile announced the relevant information of its sixth-generation manned aircraft product "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car". According to the official disclosure, the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" is planned to be mass-produced in 2024, when the pricing is expected to be controlled within 1 million yuan.
From the styling point of view, the design of the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" is very futuristic, and the sides of the body are equipped with foldable propeller blades. It is understood that the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" is air and land dual-use, with two modes of chocoal state and flight state, and the driver can complete the integration transition of the two use scenarios by folding the propeller blade.
Regarding the control, the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" adopts a single-pole operation method that is decoupled from the steering wheel, using the steering wheel in the land state and a single pole in the flight state. In terms of interaction, the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" is equipped with a flight control system, which can assist the pilot to complete the control in the flight state, minimize the operation error, and enable every driver to easily start flying from scratch.
In terms of safety performance, the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car" is also equipped with an environment perception system, which can provide a complete surrounding environment information report for the driver before starting to ensure the driver's travel safety.
（2）Lillium
Product: Lillium Jet
Features: Powerful
Founded in 2015, Lilium is a German air taxi company with Tencent as one of its shareholders. In 2019, Lilium's product "Lilium jet" successfully completed its first flight and was finally officially released on March 23, 2020.
As the industry's first product to use an electric aero engine, the "Lilium jet" has a strong power performance, with 36 purely electric drive fan engines, so the "Lilium jet" can complete the take-off and landing under many conditions. In terms of energy storage, the "Lilium jet" can fly for 1 hour in a fully charged state, with a cruising range of about 300 kilometers. In fast charging mode, the "Lilium jet" takes only 5 minutes to fill a cruising range of 0-70 km. In terms of passenger capacity, the "Lilium jet" supports a maximum of 5 people (including 4 passengers and 1 driver). It is worth mentioning that the maximum speed of the "Lilium jet" is 300 kilometers per hour, which is better than the ordinary helicopter used in the city.
However, it should be noted that although the "Lilium jet" is also equipped with wheels, it cannot be driven on general roads and can only be used as an auxiliary driver. That said, the "Lilium jet" does not have a chocobo function.
(3)AeroMobile
Product: AeroMobile 4.0
Features: Hybrid system
The "AeroMobile 4.0" was first unveiled at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, but it was only a design version at the time. It wasn't until 2020 that "AeroMobile 4.0" was officially released.
The "AeroMobile 4.0" adopts a hybrid system, the 2.0T engine mainly acts on the flight state, and the electric motor is only responsible for the power supply of the front wheel of the vehicle. According to the official test results, the "AeroMobile 4.0" accelerates 10 seconds in 10 kilometers on land, with a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour and fuel consumption of 4.2 liters, while in the flight state, the "AeroMobile 4.0" has a maximum cruising speed of 360 km/h and a cruising range of up to 750 km/ h.
In terms of design, the "AeroMobile 4.0" is similar to the "Xiaopeng Huitian Sixth Generation Flying Car", with foldable wings and takes off and landing through short take-off and landing. AeroMobile related personnel revealed that in 2025, the company will release "AeroMobile 5.0", when the new product will have vertical take-off and landing functions, and need to coast.
It is worth mentioning that although it is also a dual-use, "AeroMobile 4.0" takes 3 minutes to transition between different states, and it is not known whether the next generation of the product will be optimized.
(4) Fengfei Aviation
Product: V1500M
Features: Combines the functions of a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft
Finally, let's take a look at the V1500M, which has just completed its first flight test.
The "V1500M" does not have wheels, it is a complete aircraft product, which has previously been unveiled at the China Air Show. According to the official introduction, the "V1500M" is positioned in the electric vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing manned aircraft, equipped with a set of pure electric power system, the maximum take-off weight is 1500 kg, the passenger capacity is 3-4 people, the cruising speed is 200km/h, and the cruising range is more than 250 km.
Due to the vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing configuration, the "V1500M" can take off vertically and cruise quickly, combining the advantages of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, which is a high-efficiency, long-range product.
Comments: "Heaven into the earth" has always been a beautiful vision of human beings in the field of travel, from the early carriage to today's aircraft, every progress of industrial civilization can be used to the greatest extent in the travel tools. Nowadays, with the advent of the era of 5G intelligence and cloud computing, the market demand for mobility tools has also fundamentally changed. Standing at this node, the arrival of the next era of flying cars is bound to be not far away.
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