The Xpeng Land Aircraft Carrier is a modular 'flying car' that combines an electric minivan with a folding eVTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) that rolls out from the back. Mark had a chance to sit in the cockpit of this exciting combo that's coming in 2026 for a price under $300,000 and speak to Tan Wang, co-founder and vice president of Xpeng Aeroht to get a full tour at CES 2025.
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00:00Coming to you live inside a cockpit of an Yvetol, which is actually coming to market
00:26in China in 2026.
00:28It's going to be in mass production before you know it.
00:31And this is unlike any autonomous vehicle that you've ever seen.
00:34And not just because it has propellers.
00:36So I'm here with the CEO, Wang Tong, who's going to give us a walkthrough of some of
00:41the controls that are right in front of us.
00:43And maybe just start with like who you feel like the target audience is of this device.
00:48Yes, it's a good question that actually we have.
00:53We think about overall view, the human being is a three-dimensional animal.
00:58But the transportation actually is a little bit two-dimensional, right?
01:03Even we have the subway, we have the bridge.
01:06But if we think about how to solve the problem, like the contours, like the traffic jam.
01:15So we need to have, you know, the low altitude flying car.
01:19I think the giant vehicle showed that we have a six-wheel setup and with six wheels,
01:25all wheels drive.
01:26And the two differential lock on the rear two exhausts, it can go a little bit off-road.
01:35So I think someone who likes to go off-road, go outside, go to the wild, they will buy
01:40this car.
01:41So in a way, this could be like the next step for recreational vehicles, where a lot of
01:45times when people get to their destinations, they'll send up a drone to get like the best
01:49view of what they're seeing.
01:50Imagine in the future where you could actually be in the driver's seat and seeing things
01:55above you from a completely different perspective, and you're in total control.
01:59If we're taking a look at the controls here, you can see that there is a built-in joystick.
02:03But what I like is that the autonomy and the AI that's built in, you'll be able to, let's
02:08say, touch your destination and it'll automatically take you there.
02:13But in terms of the controls, if you were to take them over, how would you like take
02:16off and land, for example?
02:18Yeah, this is, we call it a single-stick control system.
02:24Just use one joystick.
02:26And if you want to take off, just use your thumbs, just push up and it can fly.
02:32And once you're landing, you can do like this.
02:34So it's super easy to learn.
02:41You might be wondering how you're going to get this air module around.
02:44Behind me, we have what's called the mothership.
02:47And this kind of looks like the Cybertruck makes it look like a wimp in terms of how
02:50big this thing is.
02:52But again, it has the air module on the inside, and it has enough power for about six charges.
02:58So you can fly around, come back to the mothership, get juiced up, and then go back out for another
03:03couple of hours.
03:04And there's some other cool features that are built in.
03:06So for example, on the left and right-hand side here, we have a, instead of a side-view
03:11mirror, there's a side-view camera that pops out from the side.
03:15And then in the back, there's a transparency window so you can see out so other people
03:19can't see in.
03:20As we take a look around this vehicle, you can see why the mothership more than lives
03:23up to its name.
03:24And then in terms of the range, you know, we've been talking about, okay, so how far
03:27can you go on a charge?
03:29The battery life as of right now, because I think the primary thing right now for this
03:33company is safety, right?
03:35So you can go about two hours or so on a charge, and it's about max 90 kilometers per hour,
03:42which is about, you know, 50 miles an hour, but you're not going to go that fast because
03:46it's going to drain the charge a little bit too fast.
03:49So let's say you would go, like, what, maybe like 20 to 25 miles out max?
03:53Actually, it can fly tens of miles, but the one thing that's very important is that we
03:59use the mothership, I mean, the mothership to charge for this air module.
04:05It costs less than 20 minutes.
04:08Less than 20 minutes to charge?
04:09Yes, because we use the 800 voltage system.
04:13Okay.
04:14So as long as you come back to the mothership, you could then, you know, get back home.
04:18And that whole thing together, is that what we're saying would be about $300,000 or so?
04:23It would be this plus the car?
04:26Yes.
04:27The air module plus the ground module together, we sell this money.
04:32Okay.
04:33So are you a Transformers fan of the cartoon?
04:35Is that what that is?
04:37Yes.
04:39Do you feel like we're almost there?
04:41We're almost there.
04:42I think.
04:43I do believe the future is coming.
04:55Overall, I think the EVTOL from X-Ping definitely is one of the most exciting gadgets here at
05:00CES 2025.
05:02And I think it points the way towards a future where we're going to be a lot more in control
05:06about where we go and how we get there.
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05:17I'm Mark Spoonhour.