XPeng AeroHT’s Zhao Deli: Flying Cars to Boom Globally Over Next Decade

The significance here is less the vehicle than the venue: a Chinese flying-car developer using a mainstream tech stage to frame low-altitude mobility as a decade-long global build-out, not a niche demo. That framing matters for the wider eVTOL and advanced-air-mobility field, where capital and regulatory attention are still concentrated in a handful of markets. Zhao's two-track thesis — smarter conventional aviation alongside road vehicles gaining flight capability — implicitly argues the split-type approach can coexist with, rather than replace, existing aviation. Whether regulators outside China move fast enough to support that timeline is the open question worth watching.