The development of a more efficient battery technology for any and all electric vehicle design has resulted to a number of prototypes that aim to produce a fully all electric mobility future.

Audi looks like it has gotten the goods on many of its competitors when it partnered with Italdesign and Airbus to develop two major mobility products that will make a heavy impact on this future.

Audi partnered with Italdesign and Airbus to create a new way to transport people in crowded cities. (image courtesy of Audi)

They call it the “Pop.Up Next” modular concept and it aims to create a system that can transport people in cities quickly and conveniently on the road and in the air, while at the same time solving traffic problems.

Now this is something Metro Manila can definitely use.

What the project actually wants to do is to create an unmanned drone system that can attach itself to an electric vehicle and effectively turn it into a flying car.

The electric car folds up into a cabin and the drone attaches itself turning it into a flying car. (image courtesy of Audi)

Airbus has been working on a number of electric aircraft programs, including an autonomous electric VTOL aircraft. The partnership with Audi and Italdesign looks to combine that technology with electric cars.

“Creativity is needed where new mobility concepts for cities and people’s diverse needs are concerned. Italdesign is an incubator for innovative technologies and radical prototyping. Pop.Up Next is an ambitious vision that could permanently change our urban life in the future,” says Dr. Bernd Martens, Audi Board Member for Procurement and President of Italdesign.

The basic idea is to have a regular electric car driven on a regular basis, but in cases where traffic is too heavy or there is an emergency where the passenger needs to be immediately, an unmanned drone can come and pick up the passengers or even the car itself.

The design shows the car as capable of folding up and turning into a cabin that the unmanned drone can attack to and fly off with.

Now would not that design be so cool?