Air taxis and personal transports

EHang, the aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, announced in a press release that it had performed the first passenger-carrying AAV demonstration flight at the 2019 Northeast Asia Expo, held from August 23-27 in the […]

Volocopter Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Jan-Hendrik Boelens, predicts the first air taxi route will be opening in the next two to five years. In an interview with Manfred Hader, Senior Partner and Co-Head of Global […]

Volocopter, the urban air mobility company has unveiled a design for its newest air taxi model. Called VoloCity, it will be the German company’s fourth-generation electrical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL). In a press release, […]

China’s Guangdong news service http://www.newsgd.com/ reports that EHang, the Chinese autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company will trial its first air taxi network in Guangzhou having previously experimented with goods delivery in the city. […]

by Michael Willoughby Uber Elevate has selected North Texas to be the site of its first flying taxi service in 2023 the company announced at a Washington DC summit for its developers, last month. The […]

Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC Corporation unveiled a prototype vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft  that stayed in the air for almost a minute during a test in Japan this week, reports Reuters. A video on […]

Karem Aircraft, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle developer, has announced a new spin-off venture dedicated to bringing an all-electric air taxi vehicle, Butterfly, to market. The product is being created to service its […]

Three of Uber Elevate Network’s six partners are using analytics to map out the cost of flying to work or sharing an air taxi over the total life cycle costs of aircraft, according to a […]

Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. “Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of […]

Airbus, Groupe ADP and the RATP Group, along with the Paris Ile-de-France region and the French civil aviation authority (DGAC), have announced the launch of a feasibility study to demonstrate an urban system of vertical […]