Air Car
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Electric VTOLs are shaping up as something you'll use as a service, rather than something you'd buy and keep in your garage for personal use. But Next UAS wants to re-open the conversation on personal ownership, with this single-seat iFly concept.
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A perfect gift for budding designers during the holiday season has to be Lego. The small blocks of plastic present builders with unlimited, scaled down design opportunities. Now a duo has snapped together 500,000 pieces of the stuff to create the world’s first air-powered Lego roadster.
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There's some positive news on the air-car front from Indian auto giant Tata motors.
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Toyota Industries Corporation recently set a speed record for compressed air cars, by sending its KU:RIN up to 129.2 km/h (80.3 mph).
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The innovators behind the SoloTrek/Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle have announced plans to develop the world's first, fuel-electric hybrid flying car.
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Volvo displayed a ¼ scale model of its compressed air concept car at the recent LA Auto Show.
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The European version of the world’s cheapest car, the Nano was introduced at the Geneva Auto Show this week.
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Intended both as a personal 3-4 seater city commuter and as a getabout for airport, train station and municipal workers, the AIRPod is cute and easy to drive with a joystick instead of a steering wheel and pedals.
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Moller International has announced they are in the process of completing their fourth M200 “Jetson” volantor airframe and expect to complete forty of these fly-by-wire, multi-engine flying vehicles in 2009 and offer them for sale by international auction.
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Twice as clean as a Prius, and capable of 90mph or 1000 miles to a tank, the Air Car, featuring an ingenious compressed-air motor, is coming to the U.S. - and it'll be well under