{"id":25434,"date":"2022-08-07T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=25434"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:53:25","slug":"volkswagen-launches-working-prototype-of-flying-passenger-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/volkswagen-launches-working-prototype-of-flying-passenger-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Launches Working Prototype of Flying Passenger Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As other established automakers such as XPeng and Aston Martin reveal ambitious plans of stepping into the world of air mobility, Volkswagen now ventures into aircraft design for the first time with the launch of a new \u201cstate-of-the-art passenger drone prototype.\u201d Dressed in a black and gold livery, the four-seated automated vehicle is officially named VMO and nicknamed \u201cFlying Tiger,\u201d coinciding with this year\u2019s zodiac based on the lunar calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VMO measures 11.2 meters in length and 10.6 meters wide, featuring eight rotors for vertical mobility and two rear propellers for horizontal movement. When finalized, it\u2019s expected to be able to fly up to 200 km per hour and 60 minutes on a full charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiming to capture the urban mobility market, Volkswagen\u2019s Chinese subdivision, Volkswagen China, worked with design consultancy Tangerine and machinery manufacturer Sunward to realize the fully operational prototype. Volkswagen China\u2019s project manager and product owner Zhou Jin reveals that the vehicle will initially roll out as a VIP taxi service for urban areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur vision is for a private eVTOL that will serve the growing urban elite who will be traveling between Chinese megacity clusters for business and leisure,\u201d said Jin. \u201cSo, in the first phase of its commercial use, VMO is likely to be pitched as a premium product for high-net-worth individuals, for example for VIP air shuttle services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are headed towards a world in which everyone will be able to operate aircraft, even without a pilot\u2019s license,\u201d Jin continued. \u201cThe key to making this possible is automation and remote control so that passengers only need to select a destination while the vehicle\u2019s systems take care of guidance and ensure their safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking forward, the automotive company looks to release an updated prototype by the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As other established automakers such as XPeng and Aston Martin reveal ambitious plans of stepping into the world of air mobility, Volkswagen now ventures into aircraft design for the first time with the launch of a new \u201cstate-of-the-art passenger drone prototype.\u201d Dressed in a black and gold livery, the four-seated automated vehicle is officially named […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-25434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plane","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25439,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25434\/revisions\/25439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}