And while it is easy to dismiss some of the hundreds of projects as gimmicks destined to fail, there are some serious multinational players entering the flying fray. That is, unless you follow the handful of projects that have moved beyond prototype into workable, autonomous, flying taxis. Yes EVs are taking off, but not literally.
Not only has air and land transport changed little since the 1960s, we are still highly reliant on fossil fuels for our daily commute. The reality of urban mobility in 2022 is very different. In that movie, flying cars abound, darting between neon signs and soaring skyscrapers that would put Vegas and Dubai to shame. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.The original 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner was set in a dystopian ‘future’ of 2017. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Uber Volkswagen joins a growing list of companies exploring the potential of flying vehicles. In an interview posted to LinkedIn on Tuesday, head of Volkswagen China Stephan Wöllenstein told Volkswagen chairman Herbert Diess that the company also plans to develop a drone that could be licensed, which would help it to participate in the future market for individual mobility “that’s taking place up in the air and not down on the streets.” Luxury automakers race to perfect the flying car What's more fancy than a Porsche? A flying Porsche. Flying vehicles would need to operate in crowded airspace, near small drones and traditional airplanes, and would also need a regulatory framework, which could take years. It delivered more than three times the volume of battery electric vehicles last year than it did in 2019, while plug-in hybrid deliveries surged 175% to 190,500 units.īut “vertical mobility” throws up many more hurdles than electric mobility, including safety and reliability. The news comes as the German carmaker makes a big push into electric cars. “Therefore we are investigating potential concepts and partners in a feasibility study to identify the possibility to industrialize this approach,” it added.Ĭhina is the world’s largest autos market and is also Volkswagen’s single biggest customer. (VLKAF) is looking into flying vehicles in China, becoming the latest automaker to probe the possibilities of personal air travel.Įurope’s largest automaker said in a statement on Tuesday that “vertical mobility” could be the next step after self-driving technology.
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