American automaker General Motors spoke about its project of a fully electric “flying car” during an electronic products fair held annually in Las Vegas, United States.
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The project is being developed within the Cadillac family, and will be aimed at luxury “air taxi” services.
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The novelty is one of the development initiatives of “giant drones” from various companies, whose participants are also a startup developed in partnership with Uber with Amber.
In GM’s case, the vertical take-off aircraft would have only one seat, and it has a displacement system based on eight engines supplied by the electrical energy stored in the battery.
According to the company, this type of vehicle is “the key to GM’s vision for a multimodal future”. The information is from the newspaper Folha DS Paulo.
GM has emphasized a future for electric vehicles, where it will compete with Tesla by Elon Musk, currently the world’s most valuable automaker due to capitalization on the US Stock Exchange.
GM also announced a logo change, the first since 1938: more minimal, now the brand highlights its new orientation towards an electrified future.
