{"id":22985,"date":"2025-02-27T21:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2025-02-27T21:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:20:49","slug":"the-first-real-flying-car-flew-in-california-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=22985","title":{"rendered":"The first &#8220;real&#8221; flying car flew in California (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many companies, mainly startups, have designs or prototypes of vehicles that can drive on the road like conventional cars but become flying at the push of a button. The American company Alef Aeronautics, which is known to be backed by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, has created such a vehicle, which is the closest thing that has been presented in terms of design to a flying car, and has carried out a test in real conditions in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video that was released, the Alef Model A, as the vehicle is called, is seen driving on the road like a regular car and then the vehicle flies over another car. The two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle costs approximately $250,000 and the company claims to have received approximately three thousand pre-orders, but it should be noted that the deposit to place a pre-order is symbolic since the interested party must pay only $150, which can be withdrawn at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World\u2019s first electric flying car takes flight in California\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtVUJjmVM9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a two-seater car called the \u201cAlef Model A.\u201d Customers can pre-order the \u201cModel A \u200b\u201d online and will need to make a nominal $150 deposit for the vehicle. They can withdraw the deposit at any time. Alef has announced that it is separately working on a four-seater sedan, the Model Z, which is scheduled to be released by 2035 at a price of around $35,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most companies involved in the flying car field have designed models that have wings attached to the sides or large rotors that make the vehicle look like a helicopter. Alef decided to try to make a vehicle that looks as much like a conventional car as possible. Its model does indeed look like a regular car. The vehicle features a mesh shell that protects rotors inside that allow air to flow through the vehicle, with company executives claiming it is &#8220;the first flying car&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many companies, mainly startups, have designs or prototypes of vehicles that can drive on the road like conventional cars but become flying at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,2960],"tags":[1920,4990,6628,215,70],"class_list":["post-22985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","category-technology","tag-california","tag-car","tag-flying-car","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22987,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions\/22987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}