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* The Moller Skycar M400 is a prototype personal VTOL ( vertical take-off and landing ) aircraft that some refer to as a flying car, although it cannot be driven as an automobile.

However, the Skycar is a good demonstration of the technological barriers to developing the VTOL flying car.

Moller International continues to develop the Skycar M400, which is powered by four pairs of in-tandem Wankel rotary engines, and is approaching the problems of satellite-navigation, incorporated in the proposed Small Aircraft Transportation System.

Moller also advises that, currently, the Skycar would only be allowed to fly from airports & heliports.

Moller has been developing VTOL craft since the late 1960s, but no Moller vehicle has ever achieved free flight out of ground effect.

The proposed Autovolantor model has an all-electric version powered by Altairnano batteries.