--- --- Oct 24, 2023 # The Drive to Fly Alef Aeronautics Model A by [Alejandro de la Garza](/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/) ## Alejandro de la Garza  Plenty of startups are working on the sci-fi dream of flying cars, but not many look like, well, a car. “We started calling everything a flying car, and that was wrong,” says Jim Dukhovny, co-founder and CEO of Alef Aeronautics. The company’s Model A, a two-seat, all-electric vehicle with a flight range of 110 miles, indeed looks made to be parked in a garage. In July, the Federal Aviation Administration gave the vehicle a special airworthy certificate, allowing Alef to make test flights. The company hopes to deliver the first Model A’s by 2026. Alef Aeronautics Model A: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324130/alef-aeronautics-model-a/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324130/alef-aeronautics-model-a/"},"headline":"The Drive to Fly","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:22:14.654Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324130/alef-aeronautics-model-a/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4445bd211a1573/698a418216d8843452c3c5ed/best-inventions-2023-alef-model-a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alejandro de la Garza","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/"}],"creator":"Alejandro de la Garza","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4445bd211a1573/698a418216d8843452c3c5ed/best-inventions-2023-alef-model-a.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324130/alef-aeronautics-model-a/","name":"The Drive to Fly"}}]}] ```