Pop.Up (Flying Car) By AirBus & Italdesign

Описание: AirBus PopUp essentially is a Capsule that can either connect to Ground or Air Module. The project also says it can be integrated into other means of transportation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes care of managing trips, freeing passengers to interact and choose from a multimodal transportation system or relax and enjoy the journey in this self-piloted autonomous system that can ride on the ground or fly in the air.

The Airbus & Italdesign Pop.Up
The Pop.Up concept is the result of Italdesign and Airbus working together on how to discuss the mobility challenges our societies face. The Pop.Up pod can connect to either an Airbus-created autonomous, electric rotor platform for flight or Audi’s electric rolling wheelbase. The video below will show you how passengers would be picked up from an airport. You’ll notice the vehicle’s transition from rotors to wheels. But is the idea honky-dory? Can technology work with enough efficiency and top-notch battery energy density packs to allow for this eVTOL dream?
60 kW should be enough for the flight part for a 75 mph wingless route of 37 miles. Charge time is estimated at 15 minutes, which means the aircraft can quickly be ready for take-off again.
The superficially odd decision to go wingless is that Airbus wanted to test inter-modularity where range isn’t as much as an issue. Now that Airbus has bought Voom, an on-demand helicopter mobility company in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Mexico City, it is ready to undergo its testing phase. And the good news so far is that Airbus feels it can reach just 2 to 2.5× the price of car travel, something Uber Elevate and Bell have echoed in the recent past.