THE FLYING CARS ARE HERE AND READY TO GO FROM (ALEF) CALIFORNIA BASED AERONAUTICS COMPANY

Jacinta Enoch

July 16, 2023

(Alef flying car during delivery on lowbed)

The greatest anticipation of the Science-fiction World is now a reality, as a California based company is currently designing an electric flying car and also taking preorders.

Infamous Alef Aeronautics’ flying car has alltogether received a special certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to accelerate on air , meaning the company will be allowed to test the car by road or air, the company said in a news release.

According to Alef's website, this electric based vehicle (having a hydrogen option for a higher price) with a low-speed can be driven approximately up to 200 miles on public roads and fits into a regular garage, can also launch vertically into the air with a flying range of 110 miles.

(Flying car on land and air/ photo credit: fox news)

Alef company's "Model A" car "can fly ahead beyond many obstacles till it reaches a desired destination," the San Mateo-based company says. "The driver and the cabin are stabilized by a unique gimbaled rotating cabin design."

Alef company has fortified the car’s ability to avoid traffic, fly in any direction while giving a "cinematic 180 plus degree view for safe and ecstatic flight."

Clients are asked to preorder the vehicle, which is stipulated to cost up to $300,000 with a two-seated space.

An FAA spokesperson told Fox Business it "issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate for the Armada Model Zero aircraft on June 12, 2023. This certificate allows the aircraft to be used for limited purposes, including exhibition, research and development. This is not the first aircraft of its kind for which the FAA has issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate."

Alef first unveiled the car last October and said it has already taken a "strong" number of preorders from people and businesses.

The FAA is working on policies for the takeoff and landing of electric vehicles, the company said.

(Purple colour Alef Flying car in a photo shoot room)

(Popular Black colour Alef flying car in photoshoot)

"We're excited to receive this certification from the FAA," Alef CEO Jim Dukhovny, who co-founded the company in 2015, said in a statement.

"During one of the Science Fiction lectures, Jim Dukhovny talked about how flying cars are finally possible in 2015," the website says. "But he lacked technical skills to take on such a complicated task by himself."

Dukhovny added that the certification "allows us to move closer to bringing people an environmentally friendly and faster commute, saving individuals and companies hours each week. This is a one small step for planes, one giant step for cars."

Dukhovny and co-founders Constantine Kisly, Pavel Markin and Oleg Petrovwere were first inspired to first try to create a flying car in 2015, when they realized it was the same year when Marty McFly drove one in "Back to the Future II," the website says.