World’s first hybrid-electric flying car?

Posted by info Monday, September 19, 2011 0 comments

I’m sure that you’ll have seen all sorts of flying cars in movies, but flying cars might not be that far from reality after all. Today we have a hybrid-electric vehicle that can travel on the ground and in the air, this I believe is a first.

This hybrid-electric vehicle is called BiPod, and it is designed by Burt Rutan, a famous engineer that was behind many amazing aircrafts such as Ansari X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne. Burt’s latest project, BiPod, is the one of a kind electric vehicle, that comes with two fuselages that are equipped with electrically driven wheels and propellers, along with batteries that are in charge of powering the vehicle’s propulsion and systems.

In addition, this aircraft comes with 450cc internal-combustion engines, with one in each fuselage. As for flying abilities, BiPod didn’t achieve any special latitude, mostly because its still in an early stage of development.

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