Once in operation, the taxi's take-off and landing locations will all be digitally preset so passengers can simply be picked up and arrive at their desired destinations without the need for a pilot. It is 100% powered by "green" electricity and has various fail-safe systems that enable it to land itself safely should any malfunctions occur. This flying car made the news a few years back after successfully carrying Dutch Prince Pieter Christiaan to Amsterdam just months after the creator's CEO Huazhi Hu took a ride in it himself. The EHang is a specially designed aerial drone taxi. Namely, VTOL's don't function very well in harsh environments and are best suited to areas with generally mild weather and low rain for safety reasons.ĭespite this, they plan to begin rolling out the service as early as 2020 in LA. Their choice of initial cities does highlight some inherent issues with VTOL craft. Little is really known about the project beyond that but they have teamed up with five different partners, including Boeing, to make it a reality. The project has been in development since 2016 and Uber hopes to get it off the ground very soon. The program is called "UBERAIR" and is planned to be introduced in Dallas and Los Angeles first. Uber are currently developing their own ambitious flying car project or VTOL taxis. If, or perhaps when, it goes on the market in 2019 it is earmarked for a price tag of around $400,000 per unit. It has been clocked at a top land speed of 160 km per hour and can reach 180 km per hour in the air. The Liberty runs on two engines each specially designed for use on the road or in the air. According to their CEO, Robert Dingemanse, all they need now as the final necessary certifications to make their Liberty market-ready. If true, this will make it one of, if not the, first commercially available flying car. They are so close, in fact, that they intend to take pre-orders for its as early as 2019. PAL-V, a Dutch Aerospace company, is nearing completion of their flying car project - the Liberty.
This is another interesting one to keep an eye on. Prototype plans reveal that it will be a VTOL but more resembles a traditional airplane but with multiple propellers. It will be, by virtue, a lot bigger and heavier than its rivals.
This air taxi is interesting, compared to others on the list, as it is being designed with a seating capacity of up to 5. The conditions of the investment were to provide a practical all-electric air taxi of the future. Joby Aviation had been working on a personal aerial craft for several years before receiving an enormous cash injection from Toyota and Intel. This is one to really keep an eye out for over the next few years. Not only that but its sleek lines will make it a rival for a high-end sports car of today. The TF-X is being built from the ground up, if you'll excuse the pun, as an all-electric, vertical takeoff and landing, a computer-controlled flying car. It is this model that they intend to scale to mass production to revolutionize personal transportation forever. The first is called the Transition which, they believe, will be the world's first practical flying car. Founded in 2006 by a team of MIT graduates, Terrafugia is currently developing two interesting flying car projects.
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