Flying Car By US Startup Attracts Tesla Investor: Report
NDTV
A California-based firm has come up with a novel approach to moving terrestrial vehicles into the skies.
The concept of a flying car is not new - inventors have been trying to add wings to wheeled motor vehicles for decades, with only limited success.
Jim Dukhovny, founder of Alef Aeronautics, hopes to change that equation. His California-based firm has come up with a novel approach to moving terrestrial vehicles into the skies and has attracted at least one prominent venture capitalist.
Alef's Model A, which is just emerging from a seven-year gestation period, looks less like the flying cars in old movies and more like Bruce Willis' flying taxi in the 1997 film "The Fifth Element."
The unusual appearance - which features a body that flips on its side to become the wing after lift-off - is just one aspect that attracted Tim Draper, an early investor in Elon Musk's Tesla Inc and SpaceX whose Draper Associates Fund V has backed Alef with $3 million in seed money.
