Personal Automobile for the Sky - LEO Coupe LX-1

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 Fascinating New Flying Car from LEO Flight





                                        Source:  LEO Flight


New, Very Fast, Long-Range Flying Car Being Developed in US

A stunning, very futuristically styled, all-electric flying car called the LX-1 LEO Coupe has just been unveiled by US based, eVTOL startup LEO Flight.  It's a piloted, electric vertical takeoff and landing "personal automobile for the skies".  A hyper eVTOL, it has extraordinary speed and range.  The electric flying car can take off and land on a driveway for ultra-commuting convenience.  LX-1 has good looks, uniquely powerful technology and great inventor pedigrees - all of which have the potential to shakeup the global flying car industry.

Tech Specs

LX-1 is an experimental prototype with an aluminum frame. The prototype was built to test its innovative powertrain that contains four banks of at least 72 small vertical-lift fans.  Two larger fans in the back of the vehicle give it forward, horizontal thrust.  Incredibly, the final version will have 200 small vertical jets.  Each jet will be 4.4 inches in diameter and produce 11.7 pounds of thrust.  That amounts to 2300 pounds of thrust.  What puts the "hyper" in the eVTOL is the speed which tops out at 250 mph.  Also, the 66-kWh battery packs a very nice range of 300 miles on a charge.  The vehicle can carry a 510-pound payload.

More Details

The aircraft is compact at 10 feet by 20 feet. It's designed for personal use or commercial use as an air taxi, cargo mover, search and rescue vehicle, military vehicle and much more. It can carry a pilot and two passengers.  Also, it will contain semi-autonomous controls and, according to LEO Flight, will be very easy to fly.  The company is about to take pre-orders and the price is $459,900.

New Innovation

The LEO Coupe is new eVTOL innovation.  The vehicle was designed by award-winning automotive designer Carlos Salaff of SALAFF Automotive and the powertrain was developed by Peter Bitar of Electric Jet Aircraft. The powertrain was funded by DARPA, the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Salaff and Bitar co-founded LEO Flight in 2020.  They have already won a prestigious award from NASA and are getting ready for LEO to take off. For more stories like this, The Future of Flying

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