What is an eVTOL?

[@CNBCi]

*Thank you for watching. This video is a part of a four-part CNBC Tech series on eVTOLS. You can check out the other parts below:* • Inside Alef, the company trying to build a car you can both drive and fly - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6Xdpn9pjLicfbs • Inside Lilium, the German company trying to revolutionize air travel - kzbin.info/www/bejne/apnbnGZmd7mqnbs • Take a ride inside Ehang’s fully autonomous, two-seater air taxi - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnOmommAfLCki8k

[@vsznry]

Biggest hurdle: battery energy density. Need to solve that and miniaturize fusion for space before anything...

[@okman9684]

Its a chicken and egg problem. Someone has to start

[@stant7122]

Have a tiny battery and an ICE engine making it a hybrid

[@CNBCi]

Would you feel comfortable riding in an eVTOL? Why or why not?

[@trjolly]

Absolutely NOT!! Technology will always have issues and are you kidding me, they're battery powered. And weather will definitely affect the battery life.

[@kingmidas7170]

LILIUM❤

[@johnl.7754]

Until autonomous eVTOL could handle all the flying don’t think humans are fool proof enough for crowded urban areas.

[@zaco-km3su]

That's not happening. Nobody will allow "eVTOL" to spread because of the problems it will cause.

[@___Me_]

Great, so now that cities are entirely congested and poluted by cars, flying cars are supposed to solve that? Where are these things going to land? Imagine the noise of thousands of these flying around buildings, not to mention what happens if one breaks down above a crowded street... We need to solve the mobility issue instead of evading it. THE SOLUTION IS EFFICIENT PUBLIC MASS TRANSPORTATION.

[@Insight_Compass]

I don't think unless Battery technology improves there is hope......

[@importantname]

i dont feel safe walking on footpaths, with people on two and four wheels. Definitely do not trust the average idiot to fly.

[@boohere2]

You might get drunk people flying.

[@HoangNam-j8j]

I would hate the idea of being smashed ending life by falling cars 😮😅

[@TheJohnnyJohnny]

How about AI flying it for you?

[@DrewWithington]

So there are hundreds or thousands of them flying around a big city like London. How do they avoid each other in 3 dimensional space? Airliners have air traffic control to keep them apart from each other, and fly on known flight paths. When cars crash into each other they damage each other, but they are solid metal boxes with crumple zones that protect the occupants, and after a collision they can just sit there not moving and be fine. When aerial vehicles collide they tend to damage each other, and then fall quickly down to the ground.

[@EnigmaticAnomaly]

Stop call in them flying cars. Those aren't "cars." They're light helicopters or aircraft. I see nothing that is road worthy, so it's not really a car.

[@vagasint.4345]

Nobody in the industry actually calls them flying cars so you don’t have to worry about that.

[@MBM1260]

These are helicopters, not cars.

[@BlueEyed888]

JOBY! 😎

[@tpop3723]

Wasn’t this solved in 1985?

[@CNBCi]

You may enjoy our next video...

[@Blackjack09721]

If it is automated and tested, you best believe people are going to use that to get around. Avoiding traffic.....lol, everyone wants that. You aren't going to have access to this stuff, though, unless you are making over 200k.

[@alexandermarinosyan357]

You abbreviated eVSnakeOiL wrong. What part of the 2023 $1.2 billion dollar market is operational revenue? Zero?

[@dtworldwide3419]

Lilium Aviation 🛩️

[@pauldannelachica2388]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@yukon4511]

Not economically viable due to low battery power density and high power requirements of vertical flight. So yes, it the mother of all bubbles.

[@jay_stack1270]

⚽ Just think of the 🏆 FIFA World Cup 2026 IN CANADA, USA, & MEXICO... These eVTOLS will help transport fans in between to watch games easily.✈

[@glaydsonbarrosufma]

Just check EVE the evtol of EMBRAER that is for sure the future of Urban transport 🇧🇷🛸

[@emoney822]

To the moon 🌚

[@8poi]

viet nam hello

[@jonpetter8921]

Lilium !!

[@SeanPan-it3jm]

Another Chinese TikTok?

[@ivanhekli9031]

😂😂😂

[@SeanPan-it3jm]

Import it.

[@zaco-km3su]

You won't be able to fly it.

[@tomcatkewell]

@@zaco-km3su U don't have to fly it. Actually it's pretty like Uber but in the sky. Set the location you wanna go, walk around to somewhere it can park, then done. (For Ehang and Autoflight running now)