It will allegedly fly almost 300 miles on a single charge and fit in a single garage space.
The flying car, called the LEO Coupe, is being developed by vertical propulsion systems specialist Pete Bitar and supercar designer Carlos Salaff, who is known for the Mazda Furai concept amongst other designs. Both are working under a new company, Urban eVTOL, to build new personal passenger aircraft that will allow anyone with enough money to enjoy the benefits of vertical takeoff and landing technologies from home.
Though the LEO's small wings might mean the aircraft needs to maintain high speeds to remain airborne, the design allows it to take up much less space once on the ground — one of the main advantages cited by many flying taxi firms, including Kelekona with its . Impressively, Urban eVTOL says the LEO will only occupy one car space in a garage, meaning owners could stow it away at home.66-kWh battery system, split up into several units for redundancy and reserve purposes, allowing it to fly for approximately an hour and 15 minutes, with an extra five minutes of takeoff and landing using reserve power. The rear units will be swappable on the ground for a quick turnaround.
Urban eVTOL aims to build a prototype for its LEO Coupe and to start flight tests in 2022, and the company is looking for investment to allow it to move to the following stage of developing full-scale prototypes. Thoughof testing is still needed before anyone could get their hands on this flying speedster, Bitar claimed that the firm believes it can get the price down to below $290,000.
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