Will Flying Taxis Get to the 2024 Olympics in Time?

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Air-taxi startup Volocopter announced that it hopes to carry passengers with its VoloCity aircraft during the Paris Olympics. But will the company get its aircraft certified in time?
I explore the company’s plans at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and take a look at the future of eVTOLs.
0:00 Volocopter’s plan for 2024 Olympics
0:32 eVTOL at the games
1:43 Air taxi’s cost
2:26 Future of eVTOLs
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@GeorgeDownsWSJ 11 ай бұрын

Do you think a single seater air taxi would save you time?

@alt51801 11 ай бұрын

Joby aviation is the further one along. Lets go!

@triplec8375 11 ай бұрын

Certification is neither an easy nor a quick process. It will be nearly impossible to obtain certification for commercial flights in the next year.

@typxxilps 11 ай бұрын

great opportunity, far faster + cheaper than a paris taxi . That will need 30 minutes for 15 km and cost you 60€ simply due to long time. Velocopter needs 10 km direct route instead 15 km by taxi and charges 35 -40€. Obviously there will be a high demand at such prices, especially later when 2-4 seats become available.

@divineleyran6277 11 ай бұрын

Are you sure about that, i mean its still in Testing/trial but if you think about the long term use, theres already a flaw for this type of vehicle *wind resistence *maintenance *If you watch the Channel Adam Something you can know where im talking about

@diegomendez5512 7 ай бұрын

This is cool. But it’s not a car. It’s just a drone. Car would need wheels and be amphibious (sky, street). Anyway very cool but I don’t know why they label them “cars”

@stormysyndrome7043 3 ай бұрын

You no fool me, cowboy… that’s just a helicopter with itty bitty rotors.

@skyloveglobalnelsonbarbonc8009 10 ай бұрын

This the way we travel tomarrow❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💓💓💓🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

@GQ2593 11 ай бұрын

The future is near 😎

@Goldenself 3 ай бұрын

Whatever they do at the Olympics (who can afford to attend?), the future of this technology is for rich people in a market between limo and full scale helicopter and only in highly dense and high traffic cities. And they can say what they want, it is loud and windy.

@malexder0082 11 ай бұрын

I would feel more safe if they put parachutes on those things, just in case.

@thetimwinter 10 ай бұрын

These won't fly high enough for a parachute to open in time. But look how many propellers this has. If one goes down, you have plenty of back ups to get you down safely. I prefer the Archer Aviation model than this one but regardless, looking forward to air taxis!

@jonboyer4058 Ай бұрын

Thats interesting. Do you know how many people are afraid to fly?!

@korif7449 11 ай бұрын

Heli+dron=volocoptor🤔

@SidTechOps 11 ай бұрын

They cannot make money on single passengers and passengers can't afford single flights.

@typxxilps 11 ай бұрын

I can afford it easily. Lot cheaper than a taxi in big cities . If you fly 10 km across Paris, then the taxi will drive 15-20 km and will take 3 times as long as a 10 km flight. And guess what you will pay for a 15 km long taxi ride that will take about 30 minutes? 60€ - while 10 km flight is about 40€ and much faster. No business case, but better way to start with a prototypr certification and 1 passenger and later more than to wait and miss the opportunity .