Flying cars are electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft designed for integrated air ground transportation. They are a new type of transportation species that defines rules and leads the ecology, and are the strategic main track of low altitude economy. "On January 19th, Professor Zhang Yangjun from the School of Vehicles and Transport at Tsinghua University stated at the release of the" Flying Car Development Report 2.0: Towards a New Era of Integrated Air Ground Transportation "(hereinafter referred to as the" Report ") that the development of flying cars marks a paradigm shift in the low altitude economy industry from" tool innovation "to" ecological reshaping ". The report shows that flying cars are expected to experience a commercial boom from 2025 to 2030, and their application scenarios will present the characteristics of parallel promotion of specialization and popularization. Specialized scenarios will be the first to break through, with emergency rescue, police equipment upgrades, and highway inspections becoming the first landing areas. The popularization scene evolves along the path of 'cultural tourism first, connecting and following up, commuting finale'. At present, cultural and tourism flight projects of enterprises such as Yihang Intelligence have been implemented, and short distance connections between airports and urban areas, as well as intercity transportation in urban agglomerations, will become the focus of scale in the next stage. Commuting within cities will gradually be promoted as a long-term goal. ”Wang Zhihong, Chief Engineer of the High Tech Business Department of China International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., stated in an interview with Science and Technology Daily. It is worth noting that Xiaopeng Huitian's split type flying car takes the entertainment scene as the entry point, achieves a closed loop of commercial logic, and provides a lightweight landing sample for the flying car industry. ”Zhang Yangjun added. There are still multiple systemic challenges in scaling up the flying car industry. The report shows that at the technical level, payload range, airworthiness safety, intelligent driving, and power systems constitute the core bottlenecks for the large-scale development of the flying car industry, especially the air control capability required for flight in densely populated urban areas has become a strong international consensus requirement. Although the power system is showing a trend of "pure electric first, hybrid dominant, and hydrogen parallel", breakthroughs are still needed in lightweight hybrid technology to meet emergency self-control. Wang Zhihong also introduced that in terms of infrastructure, cities lack vertical takeoff and landing site networks and digital support for "low altitude intelligent networking", and the current planning is still in the pilot exploration stage. At the regulatory level, the rule system for airworthiness certification and airspace management applicable to flying vehicles is still being constructed, and cross departmental collaboration and sandbox supervision mechanisms urgently need to be improved. On the cost side, R&D and airworthiness certification investments reach hundreds of millions of yuan, and aviation grade materials and manufacturing processes drive up manufacturing costs, making it difficult to achieve universal ticket prices in the initial stage. At the conceptual level, public safety concerns and insufficient industry consensus also constrain the pace of industrial development for flying cars. Faced with challenges, Wang Zhihong proposed a systematic response path of "policy guidance, technological collaboration, industry integration, and scenario demonstration". He suggested that at the policy level, it is necessary to guide the establishment of airworthiness certification mechanisms, airspace management, regulatory standards, etc. that are suitable for the technological iteration and large-scale production needs of flying vehicles. In terms of technological breakthroughs, a low altitude flight technology collaborative working group should be established to promote joint research and development of common technologies such as flight control and power. In terms of industrial integration, we need to deepen the complementary advantages of the automotive and aviation industry chains, rely on about 70% of the technological homology between flying cars and new energy vehicles to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and strengthen the localization and independent controllability of core components. In terms of the layout of flying car infrastructure, it is necessary to first reuse existing resources to form demonstration capabilities, and then gradually expand specialized networks. Zheng Yali, Deputy Secretary General of the China Society of Automotive Engineers and Executive Director of the National Automotive Strategy Institute, stated that as an important carrier of low altitude economy, flying cars will not only promote the extension of the automotive industry to the low altitude field, but also reshape the future three-dimensional transportation form and help achieve "air ground integration" travel. The entry of flying cars into the public eye will be a gradual and phased process synchronized with technological progress, scene deepening, and ecological maturity. ”Zhang Yangjun believes that the next 5 years will be a period of demonstration and ecological construction, the next 10 years will be a period of starting large-scale applications, and the next 20 years will be a period of three-dimensional integrated development, which is expected to enter the mature stage of "integrated transportation of land and land". (New Society)