Can AeroMobil actually put a viable flying car into production by 2020?

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This hybrid car is not like any other

Although the number of electrified vehicles at Frankfurt borders on the bewildering, there is one serial hybrid that is nothing like the others. It deploys a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine that is used to drive an electric front wheel drive system that uses two electric motors and an electric differential for a total 110 horsepower … which also has a wingspan of 8,800 mm.

While the AeroMobil from the Bratislava-based company of the same name is a car that goes from 0 62 miles per hour in what the company says is in 10 seconds and a top speed of 100 mph, it is also a two-passenger aircraft with a maximum cruising range of some 466 miles.

Take a closer look at the AeroMobil by clicking on the image above.

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A propellor at the rear, and electric motors at the front

When the vehicle is being used as an aircraft rather than a motor vehicle, the turbocharged engine provides approximately 300 horsepower to the rear-mounted, direct-drive, variable pitch propeller.

The AeroMobil switches from a car to a plane in about three minutes.