India Might Have Its First Flying Cars In 2021

Flying cars, like foldable phones in the mobile world, is the new trend in transportation. While no company has ever truly made a commercially ready vehicle that can both run on the ground and glide in the sky, a company in the Netherlands claimed that they had succeeded and would venture in the Indian market soon.

The company in question is The Personal Air-Land Vehicle (or PAL-V for short) has decided to establish their own plant in Gujarat.

The new vehicle looks like a cross between a plane and a car. It features two engines and can accommodate two passengers as well as 20 kg of luggage, making the upper weight limit reach 910 kg.

On the ground, these flying cars can run at a maximum speed of 160 km/h and in the air, they can glide at 180 km/h. The transition from a car to a plane takes three minutes. When the fuel tank is full, they can cover a total distance of 500 km.

So far, the company has only made a small number of limited edition models and named them Liberty. Experts projected that the reason it picked India to build the first factory is the cheap labor and the way the country manages to cut the cost of high-tech merchandise, even rockets.

The company still needs approval of the central government but it has devised a grand plan to export all of the made-in-India flying cars to European countries. PAL-V said that the vehicles can be used by government agencies, coast guards, medical emergency services, and police forces.

Flying cars can be the answer for the slow sales of cars as well as traffic jams in India. According to Robert Dingemanse, PAL-V’s CEO, the Indian government seems to be quite open to the new technologies. He also said that the company planned to launch the first batch of flying cars in the country in 2021.

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