The "Land Aircraft Carrier" is gradually landing
On March 8, the second "Deputies' Corridor" centralized interview event of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress was held. He Xiaopeng, a deputy to the Chinese National People's Congress and the chairman of Guangdong XPENG Automobile Technology Co., Ltd., said that with the promotion of policies, the automotive industry chain is advancing rapidly towards the low-altitude economy. In 2026, XPENG plans to mass-produce the split-type flying car "Land Aircraft Carrier" for the first time and become the world's first company to mass-produce and deliver flying cars. "We have also combined car control with AI to develop a control system based on aircraft."
The "Land Aircraft Carrier" of XPENG AEROHT adopts a split-type design, dividing the flying car into a land - traveling body and a flying body that can be automatically separated and combined. The land-traveling body can fully retract the flying body into the vehicle and travel on the ground.
According to the official website of XPENG AEROHT, the "Land Aircraft Carrier" is planned to complete the completion of the manufacturing base and obtain the Type Certificate (TC) this year. At the advanced preview event of XPENG AEROHT's "Land Aircraft Carrier" flying car in 2024, Zhao Deli, the founder and president of XPENG AEROHT, once revealed that the price of the "Land Aircraft Carrier" is within CNY 2 million.
In the field of autonomous driving, in 2024, XPENG was the first to mass-produce and deliver end-to-end autonomous driving and opened up the entire process of AI driving from parking space to parking space. In 2025, XPENG is exploring to accelerate the implementation of Level 3 autonomous driving, and in 2026, it will explore Level 4 unmanned driving in parking lots, including unmanned parking and vehicle retrieval.