


The result, the company says, has been overwhelming, with more than more than 119,000 ideas harvested from more than 33 million visitors. Harnessing the social networking trend that sees corporations inviting customers to ‘join the conversation’, the company set up a website inviting ideas from the people of China for their idea of the people’s car. A year ago, the German giant launched the People’s Car Project (PCP) to help strengthen its attunement to Chinese consumer tastes. Who better to mass-mobilise the socio-economic monolith that is the People’s Republic than the corporate monolith built around the People’s Car? There’s an elegant logic to Volkwagen’s foray into China. The site has seen a massive influx of ideas, with several of the more interesting ones turning up at the recent Beijing motor show. They also shared that their flying car will weigh two times less than the XPeng P7, whose curb weight is 1,920 kilos.‘Use your creative achievements tomorrow the public of the car!’ So goes Google Translate’s take on the header for a website Volkswagen has set up to solicit suggestions from the public on the future of China’s mobility. But previously, XPeng shared that it will launch its flying car in 2024 with a price tag of around 1,000,000 RMB (150,000 USD). So the XPeng flying car is in its early stages of tests.
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Bearing in mind that the main challenge of making the flying vehicle with folded rotors mechanism is to keep it free from on-road vibrations, we may guess that XPeng Heitech is currently testing different suspension systems to prevent excessive shaking of the folded mechanism.

So it is definitely not just a roofline extension. Some thick cables go into this roof piece. There we can see a large piece attached to the roof. The car itself is longer than the original P7.īut the thing that deserves all the attention is the roof of this vehicle. Worth mentioning that the shock absorbers look thicker. Its front wheels have been moved forward, and the front track was increased drastically. As we can see, the test vehicle uses the body of the heavily modified XPeng P7 electric sedan. According to the source, this flying car was shot on Chongqing roads. XPeng Flying Car Spy ShotsĪnd now, let’s move on to spy shots. According to documents, the real challenge of making a folded flying mechanism is to lock rotors properly to prevent damage when the car is driving on the road. It has a look of a classic car, except for the case for rotors on the roof. Previously, we covered patent images of the XPeng flying vehicle. XPeng New Flying Car XPeng Flying Vehicle Patent Images The sixth generation of the XPeng flying car is going to change it. Anyway, there is a problem with all the XPeng Heitech’s flying ‘cars.’ They don’t look like actual passenger vehicles as they haven’t got wheels or a traditional body shape. From 2016 till 2021, XPeng Heitech presented five generations of its flying ‘cars.’ The fifth generation even has come to Europe this year. Zhao Deli founded it in 2013 with financial support from XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng. XPeng Heitech is a company that develops all of the XPeng flying cars. It’s remarkable that XPeng really tests it. Suddenly, some spy shots of the XPeng flying car on the road leaked online. It looked like a real car with a giant roof rotors box. Recently, XPeng applied for a patent for a flying car.
