Air Taxi: Breaking landing or altitude flight? - Taxi Taxi

A lot of rid of Dorothee Bär (CSU), state ministeries for digitization, has been given when they propagated the air taxi in 2018. In fact, there are already around 100 such projects worldwide. The Volocopter from Bruchsal is one, Lilium from Wesslingen another.

On the financial markets, the topic already experiences a high-altitude flight. But not in reality: apart from various test flights, the mostly four- to five seat, electrical and perspective autonomous passenger drives have remained an air number so far.

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To what extent this can change in the future, a study of the strategy consulting Porsche Consulting has now been explored. Potential is quite there in the next 15 years, it means that wide parts of the population could use vertical aircraft then a taxi today. "To become an air taxis for all reality, but it takes courageous pioneers with a sense of responsibility, long breath and deep pockets," says Gregor Grandl, author of the study, but also.

Vision of Hyundai: Autonomous shuttles Control "Hubs", where air taxis withdraw and land. Hyundai

Large question marks are still behind the legal framework and the required infrastructure, "on top of that, the topics of safety and social acceptance play a tremendous role", as Grandl is stated.

In order to achieve economic relevance, at least half a million passengers would have to take advantage of a flight taxi, which in turn would require between 1000 and 2500 starting and landing places in up to 60 appropriately appropriate cities.

Affordable prices as a prerequisite

Such a passenger volume is probably only to achieve if the drone flight becomes so affordable that it can actually afford many passengers. And if it really means progress when instead of clogged streets in the cities of dense swiss rule over the metropolis, there is still a different question.

"The mobility of the future needs more ideas and concepts," says Federico Magno, head of the Mobility area at Porsche Consulting, because even under optimal conditions, the study estimates, air taxis will not reach a 0.3 percent in the global mobility market by 2035. After the big lifting this does not sound.