Hovercar

A hovercar was a car that utilized some form of gravity-manipulating technology to "hover" over the ground, and drive through streets similar to traditional automobiles.
Hovercars first came into general use on Earth around the 2030s. ()
On , hovercars called desert fliers were a common sight on the streets of ShiKahr in the 2230s. ()
In 2259 of the alternate reality, Thomas Harewood owned a hovercar. He used the vehicle to drive himself and his wife Rima to the Royal Children's Hospital to see their daughter, who was terminally ill. ()
In 2269, when Harry Mudd was attempting to sell his love potion to the miners on Motherlode, a number of hover cars and trucks were seen in the parking lot. ()
In 2369, Alexander Rozhenko played with a toy that might have been a remote-controlled hovercar, although it is not certain what the toy was called. ()
In 2371, when the brought aboard a 1936 Ford truck, Harry Kim mistook it for an early hovercar. However, Tom Paris stated that particular automobile was about a century too early for that to be the case. ()
In 2381, there was a vehicle that appeared to be a hovercar or something similar on New Axton. ()
In 2382, when the Targalans joined the Federation and abolished capitalism, a Targalan motorist of a hovercar was watching other Targalans celebrate the end of currency. Being a man that was apparently unable to let go of his traditional values, he was evidently irritated by what he had saw, and he quickly drove off. ()
That same year, the hovercars used aboard the cruise ship Cosmic Duchess were golf cart-like vehicles. ()
In the anti-time future, shortly after Jean-Luc Picard and Geordi La Forge arrived in England with the intention of seeing Data, a hovercar was driving to Cambridge University, where Data was living. ()
In Greater Boston in the year 2399, Dahj Asha was walking down a sidewalk next to a street that a hovercar was driving on. Later, a number of hovercars were seen driving by the the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and a few others were driving down a street where Dahj was running before she used a holographic communicator to call her "mother". ()
File:Desert Flyer 1.jpg|A Vulcan desert flyer
File:Desert Flyer 2.jpg|A desert flyer driving past Sarek and Amanda Grayson's house
File:Desert Flyer over the L-langon Mountains.jpg|The Vulcan healer's hovercar
File:Hovercar (interior).jpg|The interior of Thomas and Rima Harewood's hovercar
File:Motherlode surface.jpg|A parking lot with a few hover vehicles
File:Blue hovercar.jpg|Harry Mudd standing next to a hovercar
File:Hovercar on motherlode.jpg|A hovercar on Motherlode
File:New Axton hovercar, 2381.jpg|A hovercar on New Axton
File:Targalan hovercar.jpg|A hovercar of Targalan design
File:Targalan hovercar (closeup).jpg|A Targalan capitalist in his hovercar
File:Hover-golf cart.jpg|An away team from USS Cerritos in a small hovercar
File:Hovercar (anti-time future).jpg|A hovercar driving to Cambridge University in the anti-time future
File:Greater Boston Street.jpg|A hovercar driving down a Greater Boston street
File:Paris, circa 2399.jpg|Several hovercars driving under the Eiffel Tower
File:Hovercar in Paris.jpg|A hovercar on a Paris street at night in 2399
== See also ==
* Aircar
* Air tram
* Desert flyer
* Floater
* Hovercraft
* Hovercruiser
* Hovercycle
* Skimmer
== Appendices ==
=== Background information ===
The script of mentioned the hulks of now-useless hovercars lying corroded in the streets.
Wheeled vehicles apparently continued to survive in specialized roles even after hovercars became ubiquitous. Examples include the wheeled truck-like vehicle used by the Arctic Archaeology Team in 2153 in and the buggy in use by Starfleet in the late 24th century in .
The hovercars shown in the episode and a few other episodes were actually slightly redesigned models of the shuttles from . The same seems to be the case for most of the the aircars and other shuttlecraft.
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