Advanced air mobility soars ahead

Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are designed to carry passengers and cargo mostly over short distances with zero emissions, being powered either by batteries or by hydrogen fuel cell technology. Wisk, a subsidiary of Boeing, is one of the major firms looking to bring eVTOL technology to Australia for use in ‘air taxis’ – the idea being that you can board an aircraft at one location and, after a quick hop of a few minutes, touch down at another location for not much more than the price of an Uber.

The company, which brought a virtual-reality mock-up of an eVTOL flight to the Australian Aviation Summit in August, is looking to have air taxis up and running in Brisbane by the 2032 Olympics. The prospective network would use Wisk’s recently-developed sixth-generation electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which have four seats and will operate autonomously between vertiport sites on pre-planned routes.

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