The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet
The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet
Supernal’s CEO thinks 2028 is a realistic target because there will be infrastructure to support air taxis.
2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then
That's how visionaire-ism works!
The Elon strategy.
"FSD in two years..."
"Mars landing by 2024..."
rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers
this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end
No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter ...
and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives
Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they'll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don't see how they'd be that much more common than city helicopters are now.
Oh the humanity...
Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.
If anything, wars are an amazing source of technological advancement.
This is not to say that I want war, but to acknowledge the fact that it absolutely fuel innovation
Paris will ban them before thier release lol