Air taxis: How battery-powered aircraft could revolutionize travel

[@KennethGreenCMP]

Why can't the FAA just "trust" its safe like the FAA does for Boeing?

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

😅

[@mgtowski395]

No 5 mil for the Big Guy.

[@conr2141]

This will supercharge the value of residential areas in the 100 mile radius around major cities.. Run an eVTOL shuttle 4-5 stops along the New York Hudson Valley 100 miles north of NYC, straight into Manhattan, and watch these Hudson towns boom.. Just like the ferry from Financial District to Greenpoint in the past few years.

[@videre8884]

🤣🤣🤣🧐🧐🛹

[@jatigre1]

I you put a gas generator onboard the range multiplies exponentially.

[@alessandroanzaloneshoes]

Fly Lilium ! 🛸

[@rogerthat369]

Lilium is designed to be the future regional air service.. 6 seater now 12 to 24 seater later on as things progress.. No wonder Lufthansa Azul and lots of other airliners are drafting partnerships..

[@DanielWetherill]

I've got 13600 shares in it I've got faith in lilium

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@DanielWetherill did you get it under .70? Dump it and get more when it goes there again.

[@DanielWetherill]

@@TheBagOfHolding 0.83 I'm just holding for years

[@jonpetter8921]

@@DanielWetherill Do you think it s possible Lilum to reach 10x the next 2 years

[@peterdeleonguerrero1815]

All in for this new way of transporting people and a cleaner environment for the future.

[@rayakusu-fosterB]

"LOOKING FORWARD 👌 TO IT'S REALITY." ❤🇬🇧❤

[@garyvermaak9470]

eHelicopters are eVTOLs too!

[@davefroman4700]

Its never single technologies that disrupt incumbent industries. Its technology convergences that disrupt incumbent industries. And when this technology converges with autonomy? It will be unstoppable. Once you get the pilot out of the picture, the cost to operate this service drops 90%. More if the landing sites have solar and storage incorporated into the design.

[@shreeshholla5127]

Completely agree. All the evtol's are a great start. But Wisk and Ehang are the right one's for the longer term with their autonomous flights. Cant imagine pilots going to fly cabs in the sky all day! Cant imagine people will sit cramped up with a pilot in these aircraft. So, autonomous is the ONLY way forward.

[@videre8884]

If the pilot is out of the way, something will fall, but that's not the cost... What you're writing is 1 to 1 the propaganda of the manufacturers and their media propaganda. No software can replace people. The Tesla autopilot clearly shows that it's bullshit to want to replace people with software. It also shows how despicable corporations are. Tesla advertised "fully autonomous driving", but that was a blatant lie, and now Tesla has been banned from advertising it because there is no such thing as fully autonomous driving. Teslas have already killed their drivers because they were stupid enough to believe that a car can be controlled by software alone.

[@garyvermaak9470]

Infrastructure is not an issue. All we neednis electric chargers (and battert fire suppression systems ).at existing airports and heliports. Sao Paulo has UAM at scale with over 2200 urban airtaxi and otherhelicopter flights per day under current ATC.

[@joseph40ninjas88]

The future 🚁

[@Ggg496]

The Uber CEO is definitely the antichrist 😂

[@davesites]

Great video

[@Ikgc777]

Joby 🙌👌👍

[@michaelmajid5142]

These so and so air taxis have been as a concept for ever

[@StjepanKralj]

What do you mean? Its almost here, just after fusion reactors hit the market.

[@videre8884]

@@StjepanKralj Fusion cells that you can take with you and that provide energy for 50 years... I think I saw them yesterday at Walmart. Flying robots are only 3 feet away.

[@jimidando]

If they could carry more people and were more designed like a box, they could be used as rescue vehicles for tall buildings. Another idea with that design... Building buildings, where the highest floors are accessible by outside elevators/flying cabins. This would make construction really interesting, as you don't need to design inside elevators to the highest level. Rn lilium and Co are just the start but are just electrical helicopters. Our cities would have to change.

[@formulasaltythunder4806]

Looks very cool . I believe this is the future. Jump on it now when it's still new

[@skyloveglobalnelsonbarbonc8009]

❤yes for flying taxi❤ 12:41

[@sagarsuchanda7083]

If a motor fails?

[@videre8884]

🙃

[@F.l.x.d]

XTIA

[@CombatSport777]

I am curious how low Joby will eventually be able to make short trip flight fares. Reduced maintenance, transition to Electricity as fuel, autonomous flights. I could definitely see these playing a major role in transportation over the next 10 years.

[@JobyMadeMeRich]

@@CombatSport777 Target is $3 per mile.

[@Ggg496]

In California we keep getting helicopters crashes , 😢😢😢😢. I’m never getting in one

[@TheBagOfHolding]

The should prove its possible to move the weight of a pilot and passanger the distance of jfk to Manhattan or at least hover that for 5 minutes.

[@johnbagsit2973]

I mean they wouldn’t mass produce it if that was the case. Right? Unless…💀

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@johnbagsit2973 they haven't mass produced them. They aren't even certified or at the point in the process that they need a prototype at all.

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

We can't even train enough pilots to fly 737s. Who are they going to get to fly four people around in an air taxi? The only way these catch on is if the government makes it a lot easier to become a pilot or these air taxi companies reduce the skillset necessary to operate their vehicle - ideally having it be completely autonomous. Otherwise all you've got here is an electric helicopter and you're selling to the same markets as any current helicopter. Except in those markets your limited range probably hurts you. I mean it might work for flight-for-life and executive transport but police and news helicopters (who like to hover and observe for an hour or more) would not want this.

[@mcRydes]

I can see for my local city you can pay to rent a short helicopter tour of downtown. These aircraft would be ideal for jobs like that. That's a small market of course. But I think they are quite enough that large cities like New York will be able to build heliports with maybe six pads in convenient locations, and fly them to similarly sized ports in various suburban centers or downtown in nearby cities. Being quiet really expands the potential market. But they have to be safe and reliable -- like probably safer than traditional helicopters.

[@CombatSport777]

These are being made to eventually be completely autonomous.

[@davefroman4700]

We aren't. Ai will do it.

[@JobyMadeMeRich]

Joby has an academy where they will train pilots. At first they will use military and piolts with 500 flying hours that want to be home every night.

[@Liam_Mac2]

I advise some research into it. You will find Joby and Archer simulators showing just how easy these craft are to fly. You are correct: "these air taxi companies have reduced the skillset necessary to operate their vehicle." They are looking at full autonomy in the future and there is already part-autonomy. Pilots for these craft don't need to be a Top Gun 😊

[@rowenaderbyshire9501]

Awesome

[@jonjonsson4270]

The Chief Product Officer falsely equated remote operation with autonomous operation. Regardless, if this ends up being a safe remotely piloted or autonomous service, it seems like a game changer.

[@chriswilliams8607]

Not "could", they definitely will!

[@nicholashylton6857]

This sounds more like a toy for the super rich than a breakthrough in public transport. Exactly, how loud are these things?

[@newdhirajkolge]

Less than a helicopter for sure!

[@Just_Johnnie]

I think the major obstacle is the insurance.

[@hisokamorow8388]

It’s more so gonna be the scalability, the battery technology and the air traffic congestion.

[@yukon4511]

Why does the media insist on flogging this disfuntional product? Show me a 30 minute video with 6 people in the seats instead of simulators.

[@Sr_art_3862]

They should call it bVTOL (b for battery) since electricity that powered the rotors can come from anywhere not just battery.

[@jimidando]

The e is for electricity not eco-friendly 🫠

[@vvdd903]

we don’t even have the battery power to fly long distance or repeated flight on single charge

[@SAG1028]

I’d like to fly with a pilot please no autonomy for me.

[@WilliamEnwerem-p5l]

Just imagine getting in a flying car and flying to Africa and flying to Jamaica

[@michaelfoort2592]

Pilot salaries seem cheap when you look at the profit opportunities...why go cheap at this stage?

[@LH1xx]

The flying cars in China are automatic flights by AI tech, you only need to set the address where you want to go then press start and it will take you there.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

When did someone go somewhere in one? There isn't proof any evtol can lift a person for 5 minutes. A tourist would record their flight if they used one.

[@MJ-revered]

​What are you talking about they are all over youtube flying with people in it.@@TheBagOfHolding

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@MJ-revered not they are videos edited with seconds long clips of people barely going anywhere. Edits of manned and unmanned flights put together to look impressive.

[@videre8884]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AmerBoyo]

So cool, I want!!

[@WhatsupSan]

Here Joby Bull before it takes off, will it shoot to the moon... only time will tell. Refer this comment at the end of this decade

[@thehousingvlog7034]

Im with ya!

[@武陵山下洞庭湖畔]

倾转旋翼机

[@topofthegreen]

This will be a pilot job killer, oh and cold weather makes these batteries useless.

[@AR_Wald]

Lilium go go go

[@TheRustyLM]

The battery will weigh a ton, otherwise the range will a few miles.

[@TheTinyRedDot]

how dare you cover air taxis without mentioning Ehang who are already commercialized in China.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

There would be a video of a full taxi ride in an ehang if they were already doing it. Nobody ever bought one and there isn't proof of a full manned flight longer than a minute.

[@TheTinyRedDot]

@@TheBagOfHolding 🤡 Nobody? Do some research before spewing off misinformation. All sales of EH216s are reported in EHang ERs.

[@TheTinyRedDot]

@@TheBagOfHolding keep your Joby shares bag holding

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@TheTinyRedDot all evtols have the same problems

[@TheBagOfHolding]

​@genosypheus who bought one? Is there a customer review or video of them going somewhere in one?

[@indman101]

Oh OK so we ditch cars and we're all flying what could go wrong?

[@ManoElMacho]

8:04 why is cathie wood even mentioned in todays investment news?! She has single handedly shown that she cannot make money. Ultimate loser while markets hit ATH. Im sticking with Joby after hearing about her interest in Achr

[@Vixpapa]

Could it trip overseas?

[@mahbubhossainsamm]

Hopefully, from 2030.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

On a boat

[@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149]

Air TAXI! Taxis don't travel far man. It's for travel within cities and nearby outer areas.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate received ahead of schedule, initially targeted for second half of 2022; Certification allows Joby to operate aircraft commercially; Joby will use conventional aircraft to refine systems and procedures in advance of launching eVTOL service targeted for 2024. That is in response to the other video you left a comment on. It erased my comment. Conventional means normal. It's from their own website may26 2022 news

[@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149]

@@TheBagOfHolding That does not mean they'll be using conventional aircrafts for actual revenue flights. That wouldn't even work. How is one flying from JFK directly into Manhattan with a fixed wing aircraft? It says it's using fixed wing aircrafts to refine systems and procedures. Sounds like R&D and testing purposes. Not revenue flights. And I knew what conventional meant. Don't insult my intelligence by assuming I don't know the definition of a word.

[@pauloyoshizaki2103]

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[@ericswain4177]

Not in my lifetime. !

[@jontipping]

LMAO

[@jason8ification]

It's a helicopter

[@conr2141]

helicopters can't glide.

[@CommanderBqn]

😂😂😂😂😂 is a helicopter lol

[@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149]

How is it just a helicopter when it can transition to fixed wing flight? Think man

[@CommanderBqn]

@@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149 Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft take off vertically like a helicopter. The key difference is that they are powered by electric motors instead of conventional combustion engines. Propellers or rotors ensure they can take off vertically, hover in place, and fly horizontally

[@CommanderBqn]

@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149 what are you talking about? The difference is that is electric dude

[@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149]

@@CommanderBqn You know of the Osprey the Marines use right? Same thing except one is electric and makes WAY less noise. Unlike a helicopter it can transition to fixed wing flight. Thus flying way faster than a helicopter could. While still taking off and landing like a chopper. The ability to fly fixed wing after vertical take off is huge. So to dismiss it as just an electric helicopter is false

[@CommanderBqn]

@bronxishomenomatterwhereig3149 I am very sure this one does never transition into a fix wing like the osprey. Seems it will be very hard for faa to certify it if it fully transitions to a fix wing because that's an airplane

[@pushpindersingh12]

Archer is better than joby in many ways!

[@PeterParker-wj3cr]

Is this fact or matter of opinion?

[@model1897]

What's the proof?? Give examples, don't just do a hit and run...

[@Liam_Mac2]

The proof was Archer's transition flight with an MTOW of 6500lbs. No other eVTOL has done that. Nearest was 4000lbs. The maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) required for an electric air taxi business to be viable depends on several factors, including the aircraft's range, passenger capacity, and operational costs. However, industry experts generally agree that a viable electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, designed for urban air mobility, should have an MTOW between 2,500 kg to 3,500 kg (around 5,500 to 7,700 lbs). Only Archer's Midnight has met that specification required for a viable air taxi business. For an electric air taxi business to be viable, the MTOW needs to fall within a range (around 5,500 to 7,700 lbs) that ensures sufficient passenger capacity and operational efficiency while maintaining manageable energy consumption. The competitors don't meet that specification. Joby Aviation: MTOW around 4,800 lbs Vertical Aerospace (VX4): MTOW around 3,748 lbs EHang 216: MTOW around 992 lbs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Archer Aviation Founder: Adam Goldstein "..So in the quarter, we had some major accomplishments and the biggest was Midnight's transition flight meaning the aircraft took-off vertical then it transitioned onto the wing and then it landed again vertically. So Archer is the only one to do this with a 6500lb maximum weight takeoff weight aircraft. Others have done it with smaller 4000lb aircraft BUT THIS WAS A BIG DEAL BECAUSE THE PHYSICS TELLS US THAT YOU NEED THIS SIZE OF AN AIRCRAFT TO CARRY THE PAYLOAD TO MAKE AIR TAXIS A VIABLE BUSINESS.."

[@Brad_Fallon]

Solid Hydrogen and all your power and flight times are solved. China is now shipping a solid hydrogen bike, 10 sec recharge, 50 mile range. Get to it...