一键打个“飞的”,穿越城市出行,或许不再是痴人说梦。10月22日,在新加坡举行的世界智能交通大会上,吉利战略投资的飞行汽车Volocopter成功飞越新加坡滨海湾。记者10月24日从吉利控股杭州总部获悉,吉利控股和Volocopter将在中国成立合资公司,致力于将全球领先的城市空中出行解决方案引入中国,吉利将负责Volocopter产品在中国的生产和市场推广。
今年9月9日,德国城市空中出行公司Volocopter宣布,完成C轮首轮5000万元的融资,吉利控股集团领投,戴姆勒等公司参与投资。本轮融资完成后,双方各自占股10%。这是继高端出行、smart品牌后,吉利和戴姆勒合作的第三个项目。
飞行汽车领域正在吸引大量资金进入。Volocopter首次公开载人飞行的视频更是让一众发烧友兴奋。
中国电动汽车百人会秘书长王贺武说,目前主要有4类公司进入这一领域,包括飞机制造商、汽车公司、互联网公司和初创公司。然而,大多数企业的飞行汽车还只停留于概念产品阶段。
飞行汽车何时能在中国飞起来?教育部长江学者特聘教授、清华大学通用航空技术研究中心主任张扬军认可飞行汽车商用化的未来,“飞行汽车将道路从地面拓展到低空,成为陆空一体的立体化交通,将颠覆传统交通出行和运输方式。它将有效解决交通拥堵问题,对社会、经济、安全和环境等方面产生重大影响。”在他看来,飞行汽车的大众化不是一两个产品的问题,也不仅仅是企业的事,还涉及国家层面的管理政策问题。
近年来,吉利控股逐步从汽车制造商向移动出行服务商转型,开始在空中领域布局。两年前,吉利控股收购美国Terrafugia飞行汽车公司时,吉利集团董事长李书福曾表态要让“汽车在天上飞这个梦想变为现实”。
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One-click to play a "flying", travel through the city, perhaps no longer an idiotic dream. On October 22nd, Geely's strategic investment flight Volocopter successfully flew over Singapore's Marina Bay at the World Intelligent Transportation Conference in Singapore. The reporter learned from Geely Holding's Hangzhou headquarters on October 24 that Geely Holding and Volocopter will set up a joint venture in China to introduce the world's leading urban air travel solutions to China. Geely will be responsible for the production and marketing of Volocopter products in China.
On September 9 this year, Volocopter, a German city air travel company, announced that it had completed the first round of financing of the C round of 50 million yuan, the Geely Holding Group led the investment, and Daimler and other companies participated in the investment. After the completion of this round of financing, the two parties each accounted for 10% of the shares. This is the third project of Geely and Daimler after the high-end travel and smart brand.
The field of flying cars is attracting a lot of money to enter. Volocopter's first public video of manned flights is even more exciting for a group of enthusiasts.
Wang Hewu, secretary general of the China Electric Vehicle Hundred Peoples Association, said that there are currently four types of companies entering the field, including aircraft manufacturers, car companies, Internet companies and startups. However, most companies' flying cars only stay at the conceptual product stage.
When will the flying car fly in China? Zhang Yangjun, Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education and Director of the General Aviation Technology Research Center of Tsinghua University, recognizes the future of commercialization of flying vehicles. “Flying vehicles will expand the road from the ground to the low-altitude and become a three-dimensional traffic of land and air, which will subvert traditional transportation. And transportation methods. It will effectively solve the traffic congestion problem and have a major impact on social, economic, security and environmental aspects." In his view, the popularity of flying vehicles is not a problem of one or two products, not just enterprises. It also involves management policy issues at the national level.
In recent years, Geely Holdings has gradually transformed from a car manufacturer to a mobile travel service provider and began to deploy in the air. Two years ago, when Geely Holdings acquired the American Ferrfugia Flying Car Company, Li Shufu, the chairman of Geely Group, had expressed his intention to make "the dream of flying a car in the sky a reality."
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