Air taxi

The SkyDrive – with 12 units of motors and rotors – will debut at the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan and may first be pitched in Japan and the US for sales. Thereafter the plan is to look at ‘Make in India’, Ogura said.New Delhi: From being the carmaker that put the nation on wheels, Maruti now seems to aim for the sky, courtesy Japanese parent Suzuki. The company is planning to make electric air copters — bigger than a drone but smaller than a conventional helicopter — to…

Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) penned an agreement over ‘air-taxis’ with Joby Aviation on Sunday, February 11. The contract was given to Joby Aviation at…

Representative image.‘Urban air mobility’ has seen surging interest from airlines and airports with the first flights likely to be launched during the 2024 Olympic games. With it the investment into this sector across all stakeholders, including OEM, infrastructure, and systems is projected to accelerate from USD 5 billion in 2022 to USD 28 billion in 2030, according to a mega trends report released by a company that offers IT solutions to the air transport industry.…

E-commerce in Southeast Asia grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that momentum is continuing. A McKinsey report found that between now and 2026, the market is expected to triple at compound growth rate of 22%, hitting $230 billion in gross merchandise volume. Not surprisingly, global brands are eager to enter Southeast Asia. E-commerce enablement platform etaily helps them build, manage and scale their e-commerce operations. Founded in 2020 and based in the Philippines, etaily announced today it has raised $17.8…

Last Updated: June 25, 2023, 15:10 ISTFirst Electric Air Taxi in Saudi Arabia (Photo: NEOM)The electric air taxis could replace the helicopters as emergency response vehicles due to being quieter, more adaptable, and also affordableIn a major feat, Saudi Arabia has successfully completed its first electric air taxi test flight, thus making another leap toward adopting commercial eVTOL operation in NEOM and beyond. As officially announced by NEOM, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) was completed after a…

Well-heeled NYC commuters looking to dodge traffic and reach their destination in style may soon have another option: taking to the sky in an electric air taxi. That's the hope of air-transport firm Blade Air Mobility Inc. and Beta Technologies, an electric aerospace company, after the successful completion of a historic test flight of Beta's ALIA-250 EVA electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York Tuesday — the first of its kind in the area.…

Bumble Bee Flights Pvt Ltd said on Tuesday it has raised Rs 300 crore (USD 37 million) from the UK-based SRAM & MRAM Technologies and Resources to set up a self-driven air taxi assembly plant in Odisha.Founded by air mobility solutions expert Arjun Das early this year, the Bangalore-based startup plans to launch the first human-carrying prototype by April next year, Bumble Bee Flights said in a statement.It will manufacture certified air taxis under the Bee Flights brand and be available for production by 2024, it…

Bumble Bee Flights Pvt Ltd said it has raised Rs 300 crore (USD 37 million) from the UK-based SRAM & MRAM Technologies and Resources to set up a self-driven air taxi assembly plant in Odisha. Founded by air mobility solutions expert Arjun Das early this year, the Bangalore-based startup plans to launch the first human-carrying prototype by April next year, Bumble Bee Flights said in a statement. It will manufacture certified air taxis under the Bee Flights brand and be available for production by 2024, it stated. The…

A California company seeking to build small electric aircraft says it will invest $118 million to construct a plant near Atlanta, eventually hiring up to 1,000 people. Archer Aviation, based in Santa Clara, California, said Monday that it would seek to build its aircraft adjoining an airport in Covington, Georgia.Archer is one of many companies trying to build electric air taxis. Archer’s plan involves a battery-powered vertical takeoff and landing craft with six propellers, holding four passengers and a pilot. The…

The Wisk 6th generation aircraft continues from the 5th generation “Cora” design but expands the cabin and replaces wheels with skies, meaning any takeoff needs to be done VTOL-style.Photo: WiskThe famed Kittyhawk air taxi company is no more, but one of the initiatives spawned from its failed attempts to create quiet, fast, and cheap air taxis has a new design that a new company says may be thebest chance yet to see big yellow school buses buzzing overhead.On Monday, air taxi company Wisk showed off the first details for…