This company claims that its flying cars will conquer markets for two years

The film "Back to the Future" helped people to find a new dream - a car hovering above the ground. But in fact, this idea began to break into the consciousness of humanity even earlier - at about the beginning of the 20th century, when vehicles appeared on the market in wide access. The first projects for such machines were created already by 1923, although they did not look promising. Even Henry Ford predicted that a hybrid of an airplane and a car would soon appear on the market. He assumed that this would happen, by about 1940. But, despite the promises of the inventor, flying cars are still not a reality.

The stilled excitement was again resumed last year, when the Slovak company AeroMobil irritated the public with its unique project. The prototype of a flying hybrid car called AeroMobil 3.0 was presented at the Pioneers Festival held in Vienna.

Car-transformer

In the promo video presented by the inventors at the event, you could see a car that literally before our eyes turns from a futuristic roadster into an airplane. All this is regulated by a single click of a button. After the transformation, the hybrid car smoothly rises into the air from the runway.

During the presentation of the new project, AeroMobil representatives were very cautious and tried not to make any promises. They acknowledged that the invention is still only at the development stage, and much needs to be done to enter the market.

But now, after some four months, the company has declared itself as a more confident and ambitious representative of the machine-building industry. AeroMobil specialists assured that the prototype of the flying car will become a consumer product for two years already.

Public response

Considering that similar promises have already been made on many occasions by many companies, people are very skeptical about this statement. For example, Matt Novak of Paleofuture said that he would "literally eat the sun" if the first model of the hybrid car was to be released by 2017.

But AeroMobil co-founder and CEO Juraj Vaculik is confident that the company has every chance of achieving its goal. In addition, he already knows what the second model of the vehicle will become. It is assumed that this will be an autonomous system, or rather an independently flying device.

A lot of opportunities

According to data provided by AeroMobil, the perimeter commercially available model will be able to reach speeds of up to 160 km / h when traveling on land and up to 200 km / h in airspace. It will run on gasoline, which will allow users to refuel the fuel tank at the gas station. In addition, the compactness of the machine will make it convenient to place it in standard garages. For the same reason, there will be no need for airports, since the vehicle will be able to accelerate on short grass belts that will be added to existing highways. The car salon is planned to make a small one, assuming only two passengers.

AeroMobil has a huge work to do before their promised two years will pass. The company needs to find a sufficient amount of money to implement the project, although Vatsulik says about the existing support from the EU.