Xpeng's Flying Car Unit Aeroht Secures $150 Million in New Funding
Xpeng's Flying Car Unit Aeroht Secures $150 Million in New Funding
Xpeng Aeroht has secured $150 million in Series B1 funding and launched a Series B2 round. Its last round was in October 2021, when it was valued at over $1 billion pre-investment.
小鵬飛行汽車（Aeroht）已獲得1.5億美元的B1系列融資，並啓動了B2系列輪。它的最後一輪是在2021年10月進行的，當時它的投資前估值超過10億美元。
Xpeng Aeroht, the flying car subsidiary of Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV), has secured a new funding round, after closing its last round about 3 years ago.
小鵬汽車（NYSE：XPEV）旗下的飛行汽車子公司小鵬飛行汽車獲得了新一輪融資，在約3年前結束了上一輪融資。
Xpeng Aeroht secured $150 million in Series B1 funding and launched a Series B2 round, the company announced today.
小鵬飛行汽車今天宣佈獲得1.5億元人民幣B1系列輪融資，並啓動了B2系列輪。
The latest financing will be used for the development, mass production and commercialization of Xpeng Aeroht's flying cars, the company said.
公司表示，最新的融資將用於小鵬飛行汽車飛行汽車的開發、大規模生產和商業化。
Xpeng Aeroht is about to build the world's first factory that can mass-produce flying cars using assembly lines in the Guangzhou development zone, which will first be used to produce the flying body portion of its modular flying car, according to the company.
小鵬飛行汽車計劃在廣州開發區建造全球首個能夠使用裝配線批量生產飛行汽車的工廠，該工廠將首先用於生產其模塊化飛行汽車的飛行車體部分。
Xpeng Aeroht plans to begin pre-sales of the modular flying car in the fourth quarter of this year, it said, repeating a previously mentioned target.
公司計劃於今年第四季度開始預售模塊化飛行汽車，並重申了此前提出的目標。
The latest funding comes nearly three years after Xpeng Aeroht's last round of funding, which the company announced on October 19, 2021, when it closed more than $500 million in Series A funding.
這是小鵬飛行汽車近三年來的最新一輪融資，當時公司在2021年10月19日宣佈了A輪融資，募集了超過5億元人民幣。
Xpeng Aeroht mentioned its pre-investment valuation of over $1 billion when announcing its last funding round, with investors including IDG Capital, 5Y Capital, and Xpeng. It did not mention an updated valuation or investor information today.
小鵬飛行汽車在宣佈上一輪融資時提到了超過10億美元的投資前估值，投資者包括IDG資本、五源資本和小鵬。公司今天沒有提到更新的估值或投資者信息。
Xpeng Aeroht was founded in 2013 as a tech unit majority-owned by Guangzhou-based Xpeng and its chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng.
小鵬飛行汽車成立於2013年，是總部位於廣州的小鵬及其董事長兼CEO何小鵬控股的科技部門。
At the Shanghai auto show in April 2021, the company unveiled the X1, which is the size of a regular car and can take off and land vertically in a parking space.
在2021年4月的上海車展上，公司推出了巨大的X1，可在停車場垂直起飛和降落，與普通汽車相當大小。
Aeroht's flying car development path would include electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) flying cars and modular flying cars, Xpeng said at the October 24, 2023, tech day event.
小鵬表示，Aeroht的飛行汽車開發路徑將包括電動垂直起飛和降落（eVTOL）飛行汽車和模塊化飛行汽車。
The modular vehicle will consist of a flying car and a parent vehicle that will power the car.
模塊化車輛將由飛行汽車和用於驅動汽車的父級車輛組成。
The mother vehicle will have an extended-range powertrain, 6*6 all-wheel drive, and support rear-wheel steering.
2023年3月21日，小鵬航空的飛行汽車飛行部分，產品代號X3-F的型號證書申請被中國中南地區民航管理局接受。
On July 4, Xpeng Aeroht signed an investment and cooperation agreement with the Guangzhou development zone authorities to build a research, development, manufacturing and sales center for flying cars in the area.
7月4日，小鵬飛行汽車與廣州開發區政府簽署了一份投資合作協議，將在該地區建立一個研發、製造和銷售飛行汽車的中心。
Xpeng Aeroht is accelerating the commercialization process and has so far signed deals with nearly 60 flight camps, it said today.
公司正在加快商業化進程，迄今已與近60個飛行營地簽訂了協議。
Xpeng Aeroht to build plant in Guangzhou for mass production of flying cars
小鵬飛行汽車將在廣州建立飛行汽車大規模生產基地。