Once the vehicle is finally ready, it will be able to carry four passengers plus luggage up to a distance of 200km. The company said that tests on the prototype will be carried out through 2022, before it is subjected to even more advanced test flights in 2023. Two propellers assist in horizontal flight. There are eight rotors helping the prototype aircraft in vertical lift. The Flying Tiger has been produced as part of the Vertical Mobility project launched in 2020 by Volkswagen China to “explore the next generation of mobility solutions, including the urban air mobility market and the extension of urban traffic into airspace.”Īccording to the company, the prototype has a luxury x-wing configuration measuring 11.2m in length and 10.6m in width. All helicopters are VTOL-type aircraft but some fighter jets, such as F-35B Lightning II, are also examples of the type. VTOLs are aircraft that can land, take-off and hover vertically. In a statement, Volkswagen China said that Flying Tiger is an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) prototype. ![]() Features of the Volkswagen electric flying car It has been made by the company’s Chinese division, Volkswagen China, in collaboration with Chinese aviation manufacturer Sunward and British design consultancy Tangerine. The aircraft is dubbed Flying Tiger because of both its black-and-gold livery and the fact that it is launched in the Year of the Tiger. The prototype marks the German car maker’s first step into the world of aircraft design and development. Volkswagen for one has launched a ‘state-of-the-art passenger drone prototype,’ or a fully working automated electric flying car. This was later fixed.Are we witnessing the dawn of the flying car?Īs the world’s motoring brands look towards a future filled with electric cars, some have also focused their attention to the skies. The refraction effect also appears to be broken as well. The windows on the car are not transparent, which leads to an issue where the characters cannot be seen once the car reaches full speed. ![]() On the GameCube version, the Hover Car's transparency effect doesn't appear to work properly.Despite listing a top speed of 155 km/h in the vehicle's stat file, the top speed of the Hover Car in-game is 160 km/h.Either way, the car is destroyed again after the events of Pocket Protector. ![]() It is likely that Frink somehow managed to fix it and stabilize it. This isn't very logical, as the player had destroyed the car mere moments before returning to Frink.
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