Flying car of the future Pop.Up

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Airbus and engineering firm ItalDesign, located in Turin (Italy), timed to the Geneva International Motor Show to premiere the concept vehicle of the future Pop.Up. The idea is to give passengers the opportunity to move not only on land, but also in the air. This is achieved due to the modular design of Pop.Up.

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Aircraft manufacturer Airbus and studio Italdesign presented the concept of a flying car at the Geneva Motor Show. The Pop.Up model received two interchangeable electrical modules for movement on the ground and in the air.

Aircraft manufacturer Airbus and studio Italdesign unveiled in Geneva a “joint reflection” on the fight against traffic jams, which are forecast to rise sharply by 2030. The partners saw a solution to the problem in the Pop.Up multimodal passenger transportation system.

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Thinking about combating traffic jams, which are predicted to skyrocket by 2030, Italdesign Airbus engineers saw a solution to the problem in the Pop.Up multimodal passenger transportation system. It consists of three main parts:

firstly, it is an artificial intelligence that controls everything and everyone;
secondly, a capsule docking with ground, air and other modules;
thirdly, a user interface that works in a completely virtual environment.

The passenger double capsule is a high-tech carbon fiber monocoque 2,6 meters long, 1,5 wide and 1,4 high. An autonomous platform with a chassis made of the same carbon fiber turns it into an electric car.

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The 5×4,4 m air module is equipped with eight rotors. The entire Pop.Up system operates automatically and is powered exclusively by electricity, which means no harmful emissions.

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The basis of the car was a capsule-salon for two people. "Cocoon" is made of carbon and has a length of 2,6 meters at 1,4 meters wide and 1,5 meters high. The flight module is made similar to quadrocopters and is equipped with eight counter-rotating propellers. Its dimensions are five meters by 4,4 meters.

To change driving modes, it is enough to use a specially prepared application. You need to enter information about the planned trip into the program, after which it will automatically determine the appropriate method of transportation based on data on time, travel costs, traffic, and so on.

To plan the route, call the capsule and pay for its services, something like a holographic tablet is used, as well as smart glasses.

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A 42-kilometer trip with a transfer of ground and air modules costs $52, that is, a little more than a dollar per kilometer. The system analyzes the passenger's mood, turns on the appropriate cabin lighting and displays the news in the form of a projection on the glass. Having completed the mission, the modules themselves return to the charging stations or accept the next order.

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As conceived by the developers, modules for road trips or flights independently arrive at the capsule with passengers and are installed, and the currently unused part is automatically sent to the charging station and awaits a call from the “cocoon”.

The modules, like the capsule itself, are equipped with battery packs. While driving on the ground, the car uses two electric motors and is able to accelerate to 100 kilometers per hour. The power reserve is up to 130 kilometers. Charging the "wheels" (probably at a special station) takes 15 minutes.

During flights, Pop.Up has 182 horsepower and can also gain 100 kilometers per hour (takeoff and landing are carried out vertically). The maximum flight range cannot exceed 100 kilometers.

There is no information about the timing of the appearance of the commercial version of the flying car and the cost of information.

As planned by Airbus, you can order a capsule from your smartphone like a taxi, a special algorithm will calculate the route, which can be combined (by land and air), and take you from point A to point B.

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Of course, while Pop.Up looks fantastic, but quadrocopters, which have become familiar, seemed to be something out of the ordinary not so long ago.

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The technical parameters of the Pop.Up project are as follows: the capsule is 2647 mm long, 1540 mm wide and 1415 mm high, made of carbon fiber and weighs only 200 kg. There is a small lithium-ion battery on board to keep the entertainment and climate systems running while the capsule changes media.

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The ground module also weighs 200 kg and is 3115 mm long, 1900 mm wide and 681 mm high. The drive wheels are rear, they are turned by an 82-horsepower electric motor powered by a battery with a capacity of 15 kWh. The power reserve on one charge is 130 km, the maximum speed is 100 km/h.

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The capsule can be mounted on a wheelbase or fixed under a special flying platform in the form of a quadrocopter. Thus, Pop.Up can transform from a small car to an aircraft and vice versa.

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The concept provides for the availability of means of self-government.

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In car mode, two electric motors with a total capacity of 80 horsepower are used.

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The power reserve on one charge of the battery pack reaches 130 km, the maximum speed is 100 km/h.

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When moving through the air, the speed is also up to 100 km/h, and the maximum flight range is 100 km. It takes only 15 minutes to recharge the batteries in both cases.

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A typical operation scheme looks like this: a potential passenger orders a transport service using a mobile application, sets the route coordinates (an option with several stops is possible), pays, and in a few moments a Pop.Up capsule arrives, not necessarily attached to a ground or air module, and, for example, in the form of an elevator – the developers have provided for such an opportunity.

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Along the route, the capsule can change transport modules several times so that the trip takes as little time as possible. If you need to get to another city, that is, over a fairly long distance, then the capsule can be integrated into a Hyperloop system train moving through vacuum tunnels at supersonic speed.

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The developers claim that a full charge of any battery takes only 15 minutes, so the small range of each module should not confuse the consumer, in addition, they plan to arrange the entire transport system in such a way that there will always be a freshly charged module nearby.

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Source: motor.ru

Finally, a video review of the concept vehicle of the future Pop.Up:

: Concept cars; 5801