NSW government awards $1m grant to develop ‘flying car’

Testing facility for zero-emissions four-passenger electric aircraft expected to be built in Narromine within the year

The New South Wales government has awarded almost $1m from a regional grants fund to a company developing what deputy premier John Barilaro describes as an electric flying car.

Andrew Moore, the chief executive of start-up AMSL Aero, says the company is building what is better described as an electric aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but travels with the efficiency and speed of a plane.