The instrument panel, meanwhile, will take things a step beyond what is offered in the latest-generation Caddy Escalade, introducing a video screen running pillar to pillar. It will use electroluminescent technology so that each of the exotic sedan’s passengers will be able to change it from transparent to opaque. One of the most distinctive features of the Celestiq will be an all-glass roof divided into four quadrants. While the Celestiq prototype was shown largely concealed by shadows during the webinar, the version seen by reporters last March bore much in common with the over-the-top Cadillac Sixteen concept of 2003 with what Windham described as “a dramatic presence with a low profile and rear-drive proportions.” It’s “a designer’s dream,” said Crystal Windham, Cadillac’s director of interior design. First shown during a media backgrounder last March as a pure concept exercise, the project was formally confirmed during Tuesday’s CEO keynote. The Cadillac brand was GM’s first to offer a specific target date, 2030, for going entirely electric, and the new Celestiq will fill a long-opened gap as the luxury division’s new flagship. The pace will rapidly accelerate in 2022 when Cadillac’s first battery-electric vehicle, the Lyriq SUV, launches, along with an SUV version of the Hummer and other products. The automaker introduced its first long-range all-electric model, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, in 2016 and is set to begin expanding the line-up this year with the stretched Bolt EUV and GMC Hummer pickup. (GM wants to revolutionize e-commerce with electric droids and vans.) GM’s Crystal Windham talks about Cadillac’s latest product, the Celestiq, during CES 2021. Meanwhile, spending on EVs and AVs, or autonomous vehicles, will jump to $27 billion by mid-decade. Barra recently announced GM will introduce 30 all-electric models by 2025, up from the previous target of 20 by 2023. “The key” to just about everything GM has in development is electrification, stressed Barra, who has led a massive shakeup of GM’s traditional approach to the car business since being named CEO in December 2013. General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra is fond of saying the automaker is “on a path to an all-electric future,” something she underscored during a virtual CES webinar focusing on not only the automaker’s battery technology but also showing off some of the many battery and autonomous vehicles in development.Īlong with models the automaker already has unveiled, like the Chevrolet Bolt EUV and GMC Hummer, several other projects were revealed during the hourlong presentation, including an ultra-luxurious new Cadillac dubbed Celestiq, as well as a flying car concept “designed for the moment when time is of the essence.” Shopicar.GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra’s been pushing the company’s all-electric future, she offered a peek as some of that at CES 2021. The car then drove off, to the applause of a crowd of onlookers and supporters. The 35-minute flight was made between Nitra and Bratislava, after which the vehicle’s inventor and pilot, Stefan Klein, folded the wings of the aircraft and retracted its tail, an operation that takes about three minutes. The AirCar prototype is built by a Slovakian company, Klein-Vision.

The video included here shows you what the vehicle is capable of. This is the true definition of a flying car. Like the AirCar, which last week flew about 100 km between two airports in Slovakia, before transforming itself into a car and taking the road. But there are also vehicles capable of flying and driving substantial distances in development. The pace of development has picked up in recent years, as a dozen companies (including Hyundai, GM, Stellantis, Mercedes and Audi, among others) work or collaborate to develop what could be called a flying vehicle in most cases, they are essentially flying machines capable of vertical takeoffs and landings, designed to transport passengers mainly in the air from point A to point B. Multiple tests have been conducted over the decades, but nothing concrete has made it to the road. The flying car is one of the oldest dreams of man since.

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