The 2029 concept car.
Posted on 02/26/2024 8:15:37 AM PST by Twotone
SINGAPORE — Among displays of defense jets, passenger airliners and high-tech aviation equipment at the Singapore Airshow were electric air transport vehicles — touted as the future of urban transportation.
Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs, which can land and take off vertically can be used as air taxis, for cargo delivery, medical and emergency response transportation and as private vehicles.
CNBC spoke to three of the biggest names backing eVTOLs at the airshow — Hyundai Motor Group-owned Supernal, Boeing -backed Wisk and Embraer
-owned Eve Air Mobility, which seek to commercialize their vehicles by the end of this decade.
They highlighted air taxi services for short-distance travel over cities as one of the first potential uses of eVTOLs.
“So it’s just going to be another way to travel instead of just going from the airport to downtown and you get stuck in your car for two hours ... well, they’ll have an alternative that could be fully electrical,” Johann Bordais, chief executive officer of Eve Air Mobility, told CNBC.
Eve is currently testing an air taxi prototype and aims to bring its concept to service by 2026.
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An electric flying craft piloted by DEI pilots, what could go wrong?
Translation: An inventor with an idea wants money from either dumb investors or dumb government for a product that won’t work feasibly and will have to be cancelled.
“...electric air transport vehicles — touted as the future of urban transportation.”
I doubt that.
Spontaneously combusting in the dark of night while at altitude should be spectacular.......not to mention the unextinguishable smoking hole in the ground.
Where is my flying car that they keep promising!
Where is the picture of that shrimp submarine that tried to gawk at the grave of the Titanic?
If EVs wear out tires and roads quicker because they’re so much heavier how will these things Fly any distance ?
The 2029 concept car.
I’ll never know, i do not fly. If the good lord wanted me to fly, i would have been born with tailfeathers.
Then maybe use the rest of the car as a planter.
Another DNC boondoggle to launder grant money.
BUILT BY DEI WORKERS——
Will existing airports be able to support the heavier items???
> Will existing airports be able to support the heavier items??? <
That question is an example of how conservatives think. We consider all possibilities, including possible problems down the road.
Liberals are very different. The live in the moment. For example, they push EVs. But they give no thought as to where the additional energy to charge the vehicles will come from.
Fly for 20 minutes, charge for four hours, then fly for 20 minutes again.
Sounds like a winning business model, if you can charge $5,000 per seat.
I wonder what they will blame for all the crashes?
“I wonder what they will blame for all the crashes?”
MAGA Republicans, racism.
I’ll wait to ride in one until we see how they handle lightning strikes in thunderstorms. I’m sure it is technically feasible, but a slight mistake in construction will turn one of these into a spectacular, if brief, aerial fireworks show.
Well, the problem will be self-correcting. . . ;)
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