{"id":121594,"date":"2025-09-17T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/flying-cars-crash-into-each-other-at-chinese-air-show\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:11:04","slug":"flying-cars-crash-into-each-other-at-chinese-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/flying-cars-crash-into-each-other-at-chinese-air-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 17 \u2013 Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China which was meant to be a showcase for the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Xpeng AeroHT vehicles collided in mid-air, with one catching fire during landing, the company said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The company said people at the scene were safe, but CNN\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/17\/business\/china-flying-cars-collide-intl-hnk\">reported<\/a>\u00a0one person was injured in the crash, citing an anonymous company employee.<\/p>\n<p>The rehearsals on Tuesday were for the Changchun Air Show, set to start later this week in north-east China.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News has contacted Xpeng for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The electric flying cars take off and land vertically, and the company is hoping to sell them for around $300,000 (\u00a3220,000) each.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Xpeng claimed to have around 3,000 orders for the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese company is one of the largest manufacturers of electric vehicles (EVs) in the world, recently expanding into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The flying cars are made by its subsidiary, AeroHT.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 17 \u2013 Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China which was meant to be a showcase for the technology. The Xpeng AeroHT vehicles collided in mid-air, with one catching fire during landing, the company said in a statement to Reuters. The company said people at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}