Cars
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15 hours agoTOP 10 cars of 2025
Alef Aeronautics' Model A is a road-capable flying car with an enclosed vertical-lift system that enables street driving, vertical takeoff and normal parking.
Remember when MIT flew that tiny airplane using nothing but ionic wind back in 2018? Steven Barrett and his team managed to get their 2.45-kilogram craft airborne for 60 meters using electroaerodynamic propulsion, basically ionizing air molecules and pushing them backward to create thrust. The plane looked like a weird skeletal kite with a bunch of thin wires, hardly the stuff of sci-fi dreams, but it proved that you could move through air without any moving parts, fuel, or exhaust.