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Air taxis: the latest on the flying electric cars bringing the Jetsons dream to life

Here’s all the news on air taxis and flying cars.

Although these vehicles aren’t exactly the “ flying cars ” we’ve imagined, this is a rapidly growing new field with big established automakers like Toyota, Hyundai, Stellantis, and others either bankrolling their own ventures or one of the dozens of startups. Vertiports, where Archer’s Midnight eVTOL aircraft will takeoff and land, are being planned for LAX, Orange County, Santa Monica, Hollywood Burbank, Long Beach, Van Nuys, and the University of California. The last time Hyundai brought an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype to CES, it was 2020, and the South Korean automaker was talking bullishly about adding it to Uber’s forthcoming air taxi network.

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