Still the stuff of concepts and flights of fancy in the West, automakers on the other side of the world are putting copters in their cars.
The $150,000 Yangwang U8 plug-in hybrid SUV from BYD, the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles, sports a DJI drone stored and charged in a dedicated roof space capped with a Thunderbirds-style slide-away panel. Geely-owned Lynk & Co has updated the operating system on its $24,000 06 EM-P compact SUV so that its cockpit screen can control a hood-launched drone, again from DJI.
At the “2024 Dream Day” product launch held at BYD’s global headquarters in Shenzhen earlier this year, the company unveiled its UAS integrated into a Yangwang U8 SUV. A video advert for BYD’s UAS shows a robot arm fitting a charged battery to a DJI drone inside the roof space of a U8 before the quadcopter ascends. Once aloft, the drone dodges trees while autonomously filming the high-end SUV as it bushwhacks along a dirt trail.
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