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The Alef Model A is a proposed novel design for a flying car. It is intended as a personal ground vehicle which would also be capable of vertical takeoff and forward flight. Envisaged as all-electric , type, the planned flight range is approximately 110 miles (180 km), and almost twice that at 200 miles (320 km) as a ground vehicle.
Their first venture, Iron Buggy Company, launched in 1870 in a shanty built for $100, [4] at 180 North High Street and focused it on selling cheap buggies. [6] [7] The business saw immediate success thanks to a design created by the Peters brothers and a system of labor that made production efficient, and it sold 237 buggies in its first year. [8]
Now Silicon Valley-based Alef Aeronautics is one step closer to having the first electric flying car on the roads and in the air. The news comes after the company was granted a special ...
A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars and/or VTOL personal air vehicles. Many prototypes have been built since the ...
Astrolab, marketed as the first electric-solar hybrid vehicle in the world; Volage [37] [38] (electric concept roadster car with 8 Active Wheel in-wheel motors from French tire giant Michelin) [39] Eclectic 2.0, a more compact of the Eclectic; Venturi Buckeye Bullet series of speed-record vehicles, in conjunction with a team Ohio State University
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In May of that year, the 10 hp (7.5 kW) model achieved the astonishing speed of 33.64 mph (54.14 km/h) on a test around a Cleveland horse track. However, the new invention was still subject to much skepticism , so to prove his automobile's durability and usefulness, Alexander Winton had his car undergo an 800 mi (1,300 km) endurance run from ...
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