据DigitalTrends报道，沃尔沃旗下飞行汽车创业公司Terrafugia开发的Transition飞行汽车将于2019年上市销售。据悉，这一飞行汽车面世还是在近十年前，很多人一度认为这款产品只能停留在概念阶段，永远难以真正起飞。

According to DigitalTrends, Volvo's Transition flight vehicle developed by Terrafugia, a flying car start-up company, will be on sale in 2019. It is reported that the launch of the flying car was still nearly ten years ago. Many people thought that this product could only stay in the conceptual stage, and it would never be able to really take off.

（图源：Terrafugia）

(source: Terrafugia)

但沃尔沃确实作出了很大改进，包括新的混合动力系统。Terrafugia没有透露新的动力传动系统会如何影响性能，但它之前表示安装独立的Rotax内燃机后达到了400英里空速和100英里/小时的最高速度。

But Volvo has made great improvements, including the new hybrid system. Terrafugia did not reveal how the new power transmission system would affect performance, but it previously indicated that the installation of an independent Rotax internal combustion engine reached a maximum speed of 400 mph and 100 mph.

Terrafugia还承诺，为油门提供“增压”选项，提供快速惊人的额外动力，改进的内饰、降落伞系统，升级的安全带和安全气囊，以及三个在公路模式下的后视摄像头。

Terrafugia also promises to provide "turbocharging" options for the throttle, providing rapid and amazing extra power, improved interior, parachute systems, upgraded seatbelts and airbags, and three rear view cameras in the road model.

Terrafugia指出，这款Transition已经不再局限于像那些带着“翅膀”的飞行汽车，它已经是一款合法的飞机，旨在利用分散在美国各地的小型机场网络。这个想法是飞行员以往飞到这些小型机场后需要开车到他们的最终目的地，当天气太恶劣还很容易在无法飞行时降落到高速公路。

Terrafugia points out that the Transition is no longer limited to flying cars with "wings", which are already a legal aircraft designed to use small airport networks scattered across the United States. The idea was that the pilot needed to drive to their final destination after flying to these small airports, and when the weather was too bad, it was easy to land on the freeway when it was impossible to fly.

因此，与飞行汽车的其他开发商不同，Terrafugia预计Transition更像传统飞机。像Uber这样的公司正在设想成群的空中出租车在城市周围飞行，这将需要某种形式的城市空中交通管制系统，并将挑战当前的航空法规。Transition的第一个原型机于2009年建成并投放，第二个版本随后于2012年推出。去年，Terrafugia被中国汽车制造商吉利（Geely）收购，该公司去年也成为了沃尔沃的母公司，为其提供更多的现金和工程资源。在这一系列的因素作用下，或许研发方面终于有了回报。

Therefore, unlike other developers of flying cars, Terrafugia expects Transition to be more like traditional aircraft. Companies like Uber are envisioned in groups of air taxis flying around the city, which will require some form of urban air traffic control system and will challenge the current aviation regulations. The first prototype of Transition was built and put into operation in 2009, and the second version was launched in 2012. Last year, Terrafugia was bought by Chinese auto maker Geely, which last year became the parent of Volvo, providing more cash and engineering resources. In this series of factors, perhaps R & D has finally paid off.

据称，Transition允许乘坐2人，最大飞行速度为每小时100英里（161公里），最大飞行高度为1万英尺（3048米）。不过，购买用户需要拥有飞行执照才能操纵。

It is said that Transition allows 2 people to travel at a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour (161 kilometers) and a maximum altitude of 10 thousand feet (3048 meters). However, users need to have a flight licence to buy them.

在过去的几十年里，飞行汽车的很多尝试都出现了失败，但过去几年已经看到许多新玩家希望尝试这一概念。从Terrafugia和谷歌联合创始人拉里·佩奇的小鹰号（Kitty Hawk）等创业公司，到Uber、空客和劳斯莱斯（航空公司，而不是汽车制造商）等知名公司，每个人似乎都在竞逐驾驶飞行汽车领域。但是，从长远来看，这些努力是否会取得成功仍有待观察。

In the past few decades, many attempts at flying cars have failed, but in the past few years, many new players have tried to try this concept. From such startups as Terrafugia and Google co - founder Larry Paige's Kitty Hawk, to well-known companies such as Uber, Airbus and Rolls-Royce (airlines, not carmakers), everyone seems to be competing for the driving flight. But in the long run, whether these efforts will be successful remains to be seen.（文编译飞行汽车feiauto）www.feiauto.com

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