Xpeng is getting serious about selling you an aircraft carrier
Xpeng’s flying car unit Aridge is ramping up its marketing efforts for the new Land Aircraft Carrier designed carry its AeroHT eVTOL “flying car” as it inches closer to production reality.
“Born from the cosmos, destined for the city, crafted for the sky,” reads the official copy from Xpeng flying car unit, Aridge (formerly AeroHT). Those words are allegedly the inspiration for the Land Aircraft Carrier’s three new colorways, introduced this week as the Chinese EV brand ramps up marketing efforts and targets a mass production launch for its eVTOL carrier later this year.
Dynamic duo
The Xpeng flying car system is a two-part act that consists of a fully electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flying car and the Land Aircraft Carrier that acts dedicated “mothership” that acts as its transport, garage, and recharge station.
The ground-based part of the flying car system is scheduled for production later this year at a facility Xpeng is calling “the world’s first modern assembly line for flying cars,” a 120,000-square-meter factory in Guangzhou, China.
It’s worth noting that the 2026 production target was first announced by Xpeng Aridge’s founder, Zhao Deli, in late 2024, and came with a promise that the vehicle’s price would not exceed 2 million RMB (about $287,700, as I type this). The facility produced its first flight unit in November 2025, will have an initial capacity of 5,000 units per year once production ramps up.
There is no indication, yet, that Xpeng Airidge will fail to deliver on its 2026 production targets.
New colors announced
Xpeng’s latest marketing campaign, launched on Weibo, aims to build some pre-order hype by revealing the three exterior colorways as “Stellar Silver,” “Moonrock Gray,” and “Supernova White.” The ramp up in marketing shows both a commitment to staying on track with a previously announced timeline, and some real confidence that the product is nearly ready.
Let us know what you think of the big, six-wheel flying car carrier – and whether or not you think it would work in Porsche Guards Red – in the comments.
SOURCE | IMAGES: Xpeng, via CNEVPost.
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