China’s Urban Air Mobility (UAM) company, XPeng AeroHT, has officially completed its trial production factory in Hualong Town, Panyu District of Guangzhou City.
The factory buildings will be located on 35,000 square metres of land and will include a power test centre, a flying car test centre, and two trial production workshops.
The newly established plant will immediately begin operations with tasks such as performance testing prior to mass production, process validation/verification, and trial production. Pre-research, machining, and testing of various other products will be among the other activities.
He Xiaopeng, co-founder and chairman of XPeng, said at the inauguration ceremony:
“The product AeroHT is currently working on is a flying car, but its core is still a car. For any car company, trial production and testing are all essential. I believe that this factory can accompany us through the most rapid development of the start-up period. In the near future, when the first generation of Huitian flying cars is launched, we will be the world’s first flying car.”
XPeng AeroHT has made steady progress toward its goal of creating the world’s first flying car. Since its inception in 2013, the company has flown over 15,000 safely manned flights and promised to deliver a flying car by 2024.
The flying car project aims to combine automotive and aerospace technologies in order to create safe electric vehicles with the ability to fly.
The flying car is still in the concept stage, and the XPeng X2, the company’s fifth-generation model, has a maximum flight altitude of 1,000 metres. It also has an autopilot, can land on its own, and has a catapult parachute system for emergencies.
XPeng AeroHT announced in June that it had completed the first round of financing, raising a total of more than $500 million, which is said to be the largest investment in the Asian urban air mobility sector.
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