Electric Air Taxis Aren’t Flying Cars, but They Might One Day Take You to the Airport
Imagine booking a ride on your phone for a small aircraft. After taking the elevator up to a building-top vertipad, you climb into the passenger seat of an electric vehicle that looks like a massive drone.
The rotors start up, and you lift straight up into the sky. Instead of hitting traffic, you fly over the city to the airport and reach bag check in less than 20 minutes.
This is a future that a group of aerospace companies is looking to bring about in the next few years. It’s a new class of aircraft called an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle.
For now, the most popular use for these aircraft is to taxi people short and medium distances. Some eVTOL companies are already working with airlines to launch taxi services.
Areas like firefighting, hospital transport, defense, tourism and farming may also benefit from eVTOL technology. But these...
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