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Archer Aviation wants to help New Yorkers skip airport traffic with electric air taxis
New York City -- where you can get a dollar slice at 2am or a McDonald's delivery in under 30 minutes, but still spend two hours crawling down the highway
We — along with Nikhil Goel, Archer’s chief commercial officer — sat comfortably on plush sofas at Casa Cipriani, a members only club at the bottom tip of the island of Manhattan, where we could watch helicopters land at the Downtown Skyport. The company is still awaiting Federal Aviation Administration Approval for its aircraft – a five-seat eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle) dubbed Midnight – before it can even begin testing out the routes it has planned. Rebecca Bellan is a senior reporter at TechCrunch, where she covers Tesla and Elon Musk’s broader empire, autonomy, AI, electrification, gig work platforms, Big Tech regulatory scrutiny, and more.
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