Europe could use some good news these days – and here is a piece that can have residents of one beautiful Spanish city looking to the future. Passenger drone company Ehang has entered an agreement with the city of Seville to bring Europe’s first urban air mobility program to Spain. …
Read More »The Model for Urban Air Mobility that Big Money is Backing: …
Joby Aviation, pioneers in electric propulsion aircraft, have just received another massive funding round to make their vision of urban air mobility (UAM) – drone taxis – a reality. Urban Air Mobility is a big topic, and there are a lot of players in the space. There are a variety …
Read More »eHang: Getting Close to Commercial Applications in Drone Tax…
Since first displaying the prototype to huge hype at CES in 2015, Chinese company eHang has created a vision of passenger taxis. Now, Andreas Perotti of eHang says that the company has not only moved beyond prototypes and proof of concept, they’re very close to full commercial applications. In China, …
Read More »DRONEII: Flying Cars, Air Taxis, and eVTOLs -the Varieties a…
Guest Post: This article published with permission from our friends at DroneII, Drone Industry Insights. Article authored by Kay Wackwitz. Air taxis, flying cars and eVTOLs are just a number of the popular names currently being used to refer to unmanned vehicles which are being designed to carry humans in …
Read More »Intel’s Anil Nanduri Shares Thoughts On Passenger Drones
As GM of Intel’s drone group, Anil Nanduri has probably got one of the industry’s most exciting jobs. Intel has fingers in all sorts of drone-related pies, from Yuneec to Volocopter to Movidius, to its own drone services and Shooting Star-powered aerial light shows. Nanduri, whose role at Intel gives him leeway …
Read More »China Names Ehang a Pilot Company to Develop Passenger Drone…
Ehang is back. The company that wowed at CES back in 2016 with the first prototype of the Ehang184 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) for passengers announced today that they have been authorized as China’s first pilot company to develop passenger drone programs. “On January 23rd, 2019, the Airworthiness Department of …
Read More »Your Next Luxury Vehicle Might Be a Drone
The private luxurious automobile of the longer term is probably not a roadster, however a passenger drone. Tech journal Engadget studies that luxurious car-maker Porsche has begun design work on an unmanned air automobile. It’s no shock. “Urban Air Mobility” is the newest buzz within the drone business, as know-how …
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