Two of Xpeng AeroHT's flying cars collided mid-flight during rehearsals for the upcoming Changchun Air Show on Tuesday and one suffered damage and caught fire during landing, the company said in a statement to Reuters.
People on-site were safe and the cause of the incident is being investigated, the statement added.
Xpeng AeroHT confirmed to Yicai that today’s eVTOL crash during a rehearsal for the Changchun Airshow was caused when one sustained damage and caught fire while landing. The other landed safely. The clarification comes after online videos showed two aerial vehicles on fire.… pic.twitter.com/7AYN4n4zla
— Yicai 第一财经 (@yicaichina) September 16, 2025
Chinese carmaker Xpeng invested in AeroHT in 2020 and the affiliate debuted its eVOTL flying car at the CES show in Las Vegas last year.
It started building its flying car assembly line in Guangzhou in October last year that will eventually be able to produce up to 10,000 flying cars annually.
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