XPeng flying‑car orders

XPeng said it has logged more than 7,000 pre-orders for its flying-car program and now expects customer deliveries to begin in 2027. (reuters.com) The company’s president, Brian Gu, told Reuters on April 23 that XPeng expects large-scale production of its “flying” cars to start in 2027. XPeng had previously pointed to late 2026 for mass production of the vehicle. (reuters.com) (xpeng.com) The product is not a car with wings folded into the roof. XPeng’s “Land Aircraft Carrier” is a modular system: a six-wheel ground vehicle carries a detachable two-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL, in its rear compartment. (xpeng.com) (aridge.com) XPeng has priced the vehicle below 2 million yuan, or about $280,000 at the time of its 2024 announcement, putting it far above a mass-market car and closer to a luxury aircraft purchase. The company began pre-sales in late 2024 after publicly showing the model at XPeng AI Day in November. (xpeng.com 1) (xpeng.com 2) The pitch is aimed at China’s “low-altitude economy,” a policy push to build business around aircraft flying at low heights for tourism, logistics, inspection, and short-hop transport. XPeng’s flying-car unit says personal mobility will expand “from the ground to the skies,” and the company has tied the program to that broader market. (aridge.com) (xpeng.com) The 7,000 figure is notable because most electric air-taxi companies talk about provisional orders from airlines or leasing firms, not individual-style reservations tied to a consumer-facing vehicle. XPeng’s total also includes a 600-unit Middle East order announced in October 2025 by its flying-car division, now branded Aridge. (markets.financialcontent.com) (electrive.com) The harder part is certification, not demand. XPeng AeroHT said in 2024 that the type-certificate application for the flying body had been accepted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and in 2025 the company said its production-certificate application had also been accepted for review. (xpeng.com) (cnevpost.com) XPeng and its flying-car unit have also spent the past two years moving the project from concept stage to factory stage. Aridge says its Guangzhou plant can produce up to 10,000 units a year and that customer deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2026, a timetable now overtaken by Brian Gu’s April 2026 comments pointing to 2027. (aridge.com) (reuters.com) That leaves XPeng with two tests over the next year: turning reservations into paid orders and turning a regulated aircraft program into a repeatable manufacturing business. For now, the company has something few flying-car projects can show in public: a price tag, a factory, and a queue of buyers waiting for 2027. (reuters.com) (aridge.com)