Sky-High Innovation

A conversation with Airspeeder founder Matt Pearson, the man behind the world’s first flying electric car racing series, soon to be launched this year with IWC Schaffhausen.

- Hannah Choo

LIFE IS SHORT, and in some strange, morbid way, this knowledge of our mortality is what compels us to push forward, work harder and dream bigger. It is what drives us to invent new vaccines, plant-based meat and the dreamiest of science-fiction dreams – the flying car.

Making this dream a reality is Matt Pearson, the founder of Airspeeder, the world’s first flying electric car racing series that’s now in partnership with Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen; they both share the same love of engineering, aviation and motorsport, and the vision to fast-track a new era of clean-air mobility. The series, which is reminiscent of pod racing in Star Wars, should take place later this year at three locations across the globe. They will all be controlled remotely, and if all goes to plan, a human-piloted series will be scheduled for 2022.