World's First Flying Car Factory Begins Production In China
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/2315231/worlds-first-flying-car-factory-begins-production-in-china
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> The 120,000-square-meter facility has produced its first detachable eVTOL aircraft for the modular "Land Aircraft Carrier." With an annual capacity of up to 10,000 modules, the factory will eventually assemble one aircraft every 30 minutes. Trial operations focus on process verification, equipment testing, and producing prototypes for airworthiness certification before moving into mass production.
[1] https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/11/13/worlds-first-flying-car-factory-begins-production-in-china
Flying Car? (Score:4, Insightful)
The video only shows the personal drone portion of this "Flying Car". Also, the headline states production and then the article immediately shifts to trial production. Technology headlines are so full of this type of bait and switch. It just reminds me of the $500 a month humanoid robot that turns out to be remotely controlled.
Re: (Score:2)
You are correct, they absolutely, positively do not have a flying car. They have a [1]drone that comes out of a cybervan [youtube.com]. And it's six-wheeled to boot, which would be cool in an off road vehicle but absolutely sucks on pavement. I did not bother to look up whether it has rear steering because IDGAF about it even if it does, even though that would be kind of neat. The rest of it is dumb.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRX2U0iY0s
Re:Flying Bullshit (Score:1)
They are "personal helicopters", period.
Hyphenation is overrated anyway.. (Score:4, Funny)
That's quite a feat, building a flying factory.
Monty Python Flying Sheep Sketch (Score:2)
[1]What are the commercial possibilities of ovine aviation? [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TeiSsJ3G_0
Just a joke (Score:3)
eVTOL man-carrying craft (flying taxis and flying cars) are not yet economically viable -- and won't be until we have a whole new generation of batteries with higher energy densities and cycle-lives. At the current cost of operation, these are a solution looking for a problem.
Hell, China can't sell all the EVs it makes so the chances of them selling any of these is....
Wait.What? (Score:3)
World's First Flying Car Factory...
Thelma & Louise might disagree.
What about safety? Congestion? (Score:1)
One thing about flying cars is, engine trouble could be a pretty big deal, also colisions. Sure there's a lot more space because it's 3 dimensional, but if flying cars really took off, there'd be congestion spots.
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What about...wheels???
NOT flying car (Score:2)
Stop calling these eVTOLs flying cars. A helicopter is more of a flying car that some of them. If something is to be called a flying car you need to be able to drive it on land, on a road. If it can't do that it lacks any aspect of "car".
Been there done that (Score:2)
Supercar was invented in 1960. Move along, nothing to see. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar_(TV_series)
Ooof!! (Score:1, Informative)
I wonder what sanctions the US will introduce so that the US can compete?