This Swedish company has built a fully electric 'flying car' it says anyone can fly

As he remembers it, Peter Ternstrom was only about 8 or 9 when the idea came to him while reading the French Sci-Fi comic Valérian to build a flying car.

Decades later Ternstrom has managed to realise a drone-like “jet ski of the skies” of his own, one he hopes could be worthy of Galaxity, the capital of Earth in Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières’ classic comic.

"In every future timeline, doesn't matter what science fiction you're looking at, it could be Valérian, it could be Star Wars? It could be a Fifth Element by my hero, Luc Besson. All the future timelines have flying cars," Ternstrom told Euronews Next.

"So that's why it makes me really happy to be able to at least provide the first little step in the creation of a flying car with the Jetson One".

Jetson Aero, the company behind the Jetson One, is the fruit of a collaboration between Ternstrom, a Swedish entrepreneur with three previous startups under his belt, and friend and co-founder, Tomasz Patan.

Ternstrom admits that the early prototypes that he and Patan built, utilising the latter’s vast experience as a drone-building engineer, were a little inelegant in design.

Or as he puts it, "a little bit like a flying aluminium ladder with a sports seat on top".

"It was like [a] very rudimentary thing... But it was a platform for us to test motors and propellers, and which batteries to use and those specs, and we thought that this was going to be really easy to make," Ternstrom explained.

As it turned out, the pair had greatly underestimated the scale of the task, wrestling with the laws of physics that dictate that once you make something twice as big, it becomes four times as heavy.

"We had all kinds of trouble when it comes to matching the correct motor with the