The Switchblade Flying Car is back in the headlines, this time for a patent that tackles one of the biggest engineering ...
Alef Aeronautics' $300K "Model A" flying car has thousands of low-cost preorders but faces immense regulatory and production hurdles. Its year-end delivery goal is highly unrealistic, and its "true" ...
John Neff is a veteran automotive journalist with over two decades of experience leading major outlets such as Autoblog and Motor1. Beginning his career as Editor-in-Chief of Speed, Style & Sound, he ...
Science fiction typically says we should already have flying cars and jetpacks, and, in fact, the technology does exist. But ...
Futuristic movies and cartoons often depict flying vehicles, like the flying family car from the popular cartoon series, "The Jetsons." Unfortunately, current passenger vehicles are still very much on ...
One of the most common tropes of science fiction is the flying car, and yet so far, it's remained exactly that — fiction. Despite the predictions of many authors, we aren't all whizzing around the ...
Who said electric flying cars are only for the movies? Alef Aeronautics made history after posting a video of its electric car driving and vertically taking off in public. The video shows the electric ...
A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese ...
You may soon drive to an airport, then fly home. Alef Aeronautics announced formal agreements with Half Moon Bay and Hollister airports to begin test operations of a road-legal, vertical-takeoff ...
The year is 2015. “Mad scientist” Doc Brown has just brought wide-eyed teenager Marty McFly to the future in style: aboard a flying DeLorean. Although the time travelers are out of place, their mode ...