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Menurut Boston Business Journal, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Woburn, Massachusetts pengilang Terrafugia berkata minggu ini bahawa dia merapatkan di atas mempunyai hibrid kereta/kapal terbang yang sudah lama dalam kerja-kerja sedia untuk dikeluarkan pada pertengahan 2016.
Bercakap kepada Journal, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Carl Dietrich mengakui bahawa beliau telah menerima 100 pra-pesanan untuk kenderaan - setiap satu menelan kos kira-kira $ 279,000 - dan rancangan untuk dapat menunaikan permintaan dalam tempoh 2 tahun akan datang.
Setakat ini, Dietrich berkata, dia menerima hampir $ 13 Juta daripada 'angel investors', yang membantu membiayai penciptaan prototaip kenderaan Peralihan beliau. Tahun lepas, Dietrich berjaya menunjukkan yang Peralihan sedia untuk kedua-dua jalan raya terbuka dan di langit terbuka.
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The inventors of a flying car say they are only two years away and a few million dollars short of having their product ready for the public.
According to the Boston Business Journal, the CEO of Woburn, Massachusetts manufacturer Terrafugia said this week that he’s narrowing in on having a car/plane hybrid that’s been long in the works ready to be released in mid-2016.
Speaking to the Journal, CEO Carl Dietrich acknowledged that he has already received 100 pre-orders for the vehicle - each costing roughly $279,000 - and plans on being able to fulfill those requests within the next two years.
So far, Dietrich said, he’s received nearly $13 million from angel investors, which helped fund the creation of a prototype of his Transition vehicle. Last year, Dietrich successfully demonstrated that the Transition is ready for both the open road and open sky.
Pada laman web Terrafugia itu, Transition itu disebut-sebut sebagai "pengangkutan masa depan hari ini."
"Satu kapal terbang jalan-undang-undang yang menukarkan antara terbang dan mod memandu di bawah satu minit, Transition membawa tahap baru kebebasan, fleksibiliti dan menyeronokkan untuk penerbangan peribadi," tuntutan laman web ini. "Ia mem-berikan juruterbang pilihan untuk mendarat dan memandu dalam cuaca buruk, menye-diakan pengangkutan darat bersepadu di kedua-dua hujung penerbangan, dan sesuai dalam garaj kereta tunggal standard di rumah."
Menurut laman web, Transition sama sekali jalan undang-undang dan mampu untuk terbang dalam dan di luar sekurang-kurangnya 5,000 lapangan terbang awam di Amerika Syarikat. Walaupun dengan prototaip yang berjaya di belakangnya, walaupun, Dietrich berkata, ianya masih mendatang sehingga kekurangan dana yang diperlukan untuk mengambil projek untuk peringkat seterusnya.
On Terrafugia’s website, the Transition is touted as “the transportation of the future today.”
“A street-legal airplane that converts between flying and driving modes in under a minute, the Transition brings a new level of freedom, flexibility and fun to personal aviation,” the site claims. “It gives the pilot the option to land and drive in bad weather, provides integrated ground transportation on both ends of the flight, and fits in a standard single car garage at home.”
According to the website, the Transition is totally street legal and able to fly in and out of at least 5,000 public airports in the United States. Even with a successful prototype behind him, though, Dietrich says he’s still coming up short of the funds necessary to take his project to the next level.
Screenshot from YouTube user TerrafugiaInc
Mengikut anggaran beliau, ia akan mengambil satu lagi $ 30 juta untuk memulakan pengeluaran pada Peralihan, katanya kepada Jurnal. Dalam pada itu dia tidak menun-jukkan tanda-tanda kelembapan, bagaimanapun, dan hanya pada bulan lepas disebab-kan Alex Min, bekas naib presiden pembangunan perniagaan di Sistem Pertahanan Textron, sebagai ketua pemasaran Terrafugia dan pegawai jualan.
"Tugas utama Min pada bulan-bulan akan modal lebih selamat bagi syarikat itu, yang mempunyai pekerja kira-kira 2 lusin dan kemungkinan besar mengambil lebih banyak pada tahun-tahun akan datang kerana ia tanjakan untuk pengeluaran," editor ber-teknologi Journal David Harris telah menulis pada hari Selasa minggu ini.
"Ia adalah masa yang sangat menarik bagi syarikat yang betul sekarang," Dietrich memberitahu Harris. "Kami benar-benar melihat Terrafugia sebagai Tesla akan datang."
"Ramai telah dijanjikan kereta terbang apabila mereka yang lebih muda dan kini mereka boleh mendapatkan satu," kata Dietrich.
Sebuah kenderaan kedua terbang, TF-X, kini dalam fasa reka bentuk konsep, yang Journal melaporkan, tetapi Terrafugia berharap di sekitar dekad pelanggan akan dapat membeli kapal itu dan melayang di langit pada kelajuan sehingga 200 batu sejam.
By his estimate, it’ll take another $30 million to start production on the Transition, he told the Journal. In the meantime he shows no signs of slowing down, however, and just last month brought on Alex Min, the former vice president of business development at Textron Defense Systems, as Terrafugia’s chief marketing and sales officer.
“Min's main task in the coming months will be secure more capital for the company, which has about two-dozen employees and will most likely hire more in the coming years as it ramps up for production,” Journal tech editor David Harris wrote on Tuesday this week.
"It's a very exciting time for the company right now," Dietrich told Harris. "We really do see Terrafugia as the next Tesla."
“Many were promised a flying car when they were younger and now they can get one,” DIetrich said.
A second flying vehicle, the TF-X, is currently in its conceptual design phase, the Journal reported, but Terrafugia hopes that in around a decade customers will be able to buy that craft and soar through the sky at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.
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