Under the premise of not having to adapt to a land track, Matt Pearson will innovate in electric motorsports with the Airspeeder racing series that will literally take to the skies, flying cars manned at 500 meters high and at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
However, who is Pearson? Australian by birth, he is an entrepreneur who has focused his career on building Internet connectivity from space and contributing to vertical mobility.
Currently, he is not only a senior manager of Airspeeder but also of other companies related to the series such as Alauda, he builds high-performance electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft for racing from its headquarters in South Australia.
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He is also the co-founder of Fleet Space that seeks to digitize the remote industry by connecting millions of low-power devices through the Low Earth Orbit. The company has designed, built and launched Australia’s only commercial nano satellites.
About Airspeeder
“We’ve been promised flying cars for decades. Clearly they’re a part of cultural consciousness through film, sci-fi and gaming,” explained Pearson about the creation of the category that now completed the first test flights of the first race vehicle and that it is set to host the inaugural race of its EXA series in this 2021.
The manager thought about what has accelerated transportation in the past and believes that the new series is the competition that drives innovation.
“Our races take place above some of the most visually arresting and varied scenery in the world along electronically governed circuits that of course benefit from a third dimension versus on-ground motor sport. In essence we are creating digital sky tracks that are underpinned by the latest Augmented Reality technology (AR),” added.
Nicknamed the Airspeeder Mk.3, these eVTOL vehicles will be remotely controlled in 2021, however they are intended to be manned starting in the 2022 campaign.
The series promises to visualize vehicles with a maximum power delivering 320 kW, which is equivalent to a high-performance off-road vehicle with an acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour that will occur in 2.8 seconds, the work of Pearson who assures that today It is the cusp of the mobility revolution.
Written by | Gabriel Sayago
