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Volocopter — The flying taxi
Volocopter's vision is to integrate air taxis into existing transportation systems and provides additional mobility for up to 10.000 passengers per day with a single point to point connection.
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Vijay Michalik
I'd be interested to know what the energy density of its batteries are relative to standard fuel. Uber's Elevate paper outlines that challenge and I know the startups working on UAVs for freight are constrained from going full-electric by battery tech.
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Would love to see this exist in San Francisco, but there are so many challenges including noise pollution and most notably, government regulation. Really hope someone cracks this though! cc @chadbyers
"They asked for flying cars and instead we got..." 😉
@rrhoover this feels inevitable for me. At least 5+ companies working on electric Helicopters for transport. Electric power will vastly reduce noise pollution. 4+ rotors on most architectures increases redundancy and safety vs single point of failure on standard helis. Pumped for this!
