Flying Car Company Founder Explains How Airborne Automobile Works

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Jim Dukhovny makes his company's flying car sound really simple, laying out exactly how it goes full "Back to the Future" mode during an interview on "TMZ Live" ... but, interested parties are going to have to throw down serious cash to get one.

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00:00You've got a hot product on your hands, but we've got to know how it works.

00:07So if you take an existing car, just a regular car, and it does function as any EV similar

00:13as Tesla, Lucid, or any other car, you take an engine up front and instead you put four

00:20smaller engines and four wheels.

00:22In the space which is left, you put DEP, it's called distributed electric propulsion, which

00:26means eight propeller, speed controller, motor, battery systems, independent systems.

00:31And the top of the car, you make a mesh.

00:34Mesh allows the airflow to go through, and you also make the sides of the car in a specific

00:41airfoil, which act as the wing.

00:44It seems like the aerodynamics of this, more like a helicopter than an airplane.

00:48Well, it actually has three modes.

00:49It has the car mode, where it functions as a regular car.

00:53It has a hovercraft mode when it lifts, a rotorcraft mode, and it has the airplane,

00:58like a biplane mode when it flies forward.

01:01The switch between all three modes, that's where the tech and the trick is.

01:06Okay, Jim, let's get down to basics here.

01:08How much?

01:10So we're pre-selling it for $300,000.

01:13It's right now, and we understand it's not going to be affordable to a lot of people

01:17initially.

01:18That's because we're still a startup, a small startup, and it costs us a lot to make one.

01:23As we grow in the number of cars which we produce, we can eventually, that's not going

01:28to be next year, that's not going to be in five years, but eventually we can get it to

01:31the price cheaper than Toyota Corolla or Ford Focus because it's a simpler vehicle.

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