{"id":13414,"date":"2023-07-23T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2023-07-23T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:11:48","slug":"flying-taxis-could-be-here-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/flying-taxis-could-be-here-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying taxis could be here in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Completely electric flying taxis called eVTOLs (for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/electric-vehicles-guide-2655917104.html\">electric<\/a>\u00a0vertical take-off and landing) could be in use in the United States by 2026. United Airlines has already advance purchased 200 of them to air-taxi folks above LA traffic to the airport and has also investigated a significant amount of money for developing the technology that flies them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your perspective, the air taxis look like large drones, or small helicopters. They will be piloted on rollout but pilot-free flying is under consideration for future operations. eVTOL technology is being developed by Brazilian company <a>Eve Air Mobility<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/electric-flying-taxi-airplanes-brazil-embraer.html\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/electric-flying-taxi-airplanes-brazil-embraer.html<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eveairmobility.com\/united-invests-another-15-million-in-electric-flying-taxi-market-with-eve\/\">https:\/\/eveairmobility.com\/united-invests-another-15-million-in-electric-flying-taxi-market-with-eve\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completely electric flying taxis called eVTOLs (for electric\u00a0vertical take-off and landing) could be in use in the United States by 2026. United Airlines has already advance purchased 200 of them to air-taxi folks above LA traffic to the airport and has also investigated a significant amount of money for developing the technology that flies them. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/flying-taxis-could-be-here-in-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flying taxis could be here in 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Completely electric flying taxis called eVTOLs (for electric\u00a0vertical take-off and landing) could be in use in the United States by 2026","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,1973,1215],"tags":[288,2912,2913,2914],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-news","category-sustainability","tag-brazilian","tag-evtol","tag-flying-taxi","tag-united-airlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13416,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions\/13416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}