A drone-like design allows the Aska A5 to take off vertically and fly up to 250 miles, then drive from the airfield to its final destination.
Check out our complete coverage of CES 2023 live from Las Vegas In a field of high-tech cars as crowded as CES 2023, it takes a lot to stand out, but the Aska A5 does one trick not even the wildest Mercedes can compete with: It flies.
Flying cars may elicit a reflexive eye roll after years of promises that never quite came to fruition, but the Aska has a few benefits that may make it more reasonable than its vaporware predecessors. For one, it doesn’t need a runaway. As the VT in eVTOL implies, it can take off vertically anywhere a helicopter could, using six electric motors that fan out from its body on arms, making it look a lot like a drone. After reaching altitude, two of those arms tilt forward to act as wings.
The A5 boasts a claimed range of 250 miles in the air, but that’s not all from its lithium-ion batteries. It also uses a gasoline engine as a “range extender” to charge the batteries, just like early EVs. The same dual-power arrangement acts as a safety feature, since the engine can act as a generator in the event of battery failure. And if things really go south, a ballistic parachute deploys to float the whole thing back to earth safely.
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