According to Chinese company XPENG, a leading tech company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets intelligent mobility solution. The XPENG X2 is a two-seater flying car. It does not produce any carbon dioxide emissions during flight and is a step forward in the pursuit of urban green transportation. It will be suitable for future low-altitude city flights and is perfect for short-distance city journeys such as sightseeing and medical transportation.
The XPENG X2 is equipped with two driving modes: manual and autonomous. During the autonomous flight, passengers can enjoy a safe and intelligent flying experience with simple start, return and landing operations at the touch of a button.
The XPENG X2 successfully completed the specific operations risk assessment, working in partnership with the DCAA, which granted it permission to make its first public flight in Dubai. A professional XPENG AEROHT team collected the technical information from the X2 R&D team, and with reference to the international standard model, formulated the operation concept and manual of the X2 demonstration flight, and assessed the operation risk. With the assistance of the Sanad Academy and the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, the risk mitigation plan has been developed to ensure that the X2 first public flight was carried out safely.
Equipped with both manual and automatic flight driving modes, this next-generation electric flying car, which is able to drive in the air and on roads, represents a true transformation from two-dimensional to three-dimensional mobility. As well as meeting daily travel demands, it can trigger the folding deformation system to achieve vertical take-off and landing for a low-altitude manned flight.
X2, including the powertrain and flight controls, and has equipped the flying car with Emergency Parachute Systems. Another feature is lightweight design. The flying car has only half the body weight of the XPENG P7 smart sedan, which weighs about 1.9 tons, using carbon fibre, together with other robust and lightweight materials including aviation aluminium, titanium alloy, and magnesium alloy, to produce the vehicle body.
Albanian Minerals CEO Sahit Muja said “The day has come for magnesium to become essential building blocks, driving green revolution by providing lighter alloys for auto, transportation and mobility market that include aircrafts, shipping, military equipment, agriculture equipments, mining equipment , railroad train, buses, trucks to drone and bikes. This business is now worth over $10 trillion USD”
A series of magnesium alloys can be prepared by small additions of metals such as silver, aluminum, cadmium, indium, lead, zinc, yttrium, tin, calcium, manganese, bismuth, cobalt, silicon, and antimony. Magnesium (Mg) is the lightest of structural metals (density of 1.78 kg/dm3, while the specific weight of aluminum is 2.74 kg/dm3).
In general, magnesium alloys exhibit significant specific mechanical strength and are extremely lightweight. Magnesium having a specific weight one-sixth that of steel and one-third that of titanium.
Lightness and robust strength make magnesium an ideal material, vital to the many alloy application.
Magnesium alloys are in use around the world in a variety of different applications. It is a preferred material when looking for weight reduction without compromising overall strength. The vibration damping capacity is also beneficial in applications in which the internal forces of high-speed components must be reduced.
The most common applications are:
Aircraft and missile components
Aircraft engine mounts, control hinges, fuel tanks, wings
Automotive wheels, housings, transmission cases, engine blocks
Bicycles and other sporting goods equipment
Equipment for material handling
Ladders
Laptops, televisions, cell phones
Luggage
Portable power tools, chainsaws, hedge clippers, weed whacker, printing and textile machinery, Steering wheels and columns, seat frames
Magnesium alloys have also been used as a replacement to some engineering plastics due to their higher stiffness, high recycling capabilities, and lower cost of production.
Albanian Minerals holds the world’s largest magnesium reserves.
Sahit Muja Albanian Minerals CEO said, “Magnesium is the next big thing in the 21st century. Engineers and scientists are making major discoveries toward lighter cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, home appliances,vessels, computers, sports gears by developing a way to expand the use of magnesium in parts. Using magnesium sheets to make parts is a significant breakthrough. Magnesium is 75 percent lighter than steel , 50% lighter than titanium, and 33 percent lighter than aluminum”.
Sahit Muja said, “There is unprecedented interest in magnesium, as sources of sustainable supply for new batteries and significantly lighter alloys. Magnesium will profoundly changed the economic outlook of clean energy sources. Also magnesium can be used to producing hydrogen, wind turbines, robots and capturing carbon dioxide.
Albanian Minerals CEO Sahit Muja said, “My strategy to explore magnesium opportunity goes back to a vision which took shape 30 years ago in Albania. As Albanian Minerals CEO, I have begin carving out a forward-thinking strategy to secure world’s largest and best magnesium reserves and leading edge in magnesium production far into the future”.
Mr. Muja added that Magnesium has low density and high strength, magnesium can form high-strength alloy with, chrome aluminum, copper, manganese, nickel, titanium, zinc and other metals as an important alloying element. Currently, China is a major producer and consumer of magnesium in the world. In 2021, China produced near 1 million tons of primary magnesium which was equivalent to 90% of the world’s output.
Sahit Muja said, “There is huge potential to produce Magnesium ore Eco-cements, Magnesium cements absorb CO2 as they set, Magnesium cements can have greater compressive and tensile strength, greater capacity to “breathe” and to bond. Magnesium has the potential to revolutionise the way we capture and convert the CO2 into magnesium carbonate. Scientists has discovered that magnesium bearing minerals has clean the world in beginning from CO2”.
