Watch: Electric Air Taxi Takes Flight In Paris

Reuters posted a video of the electric air taxi VoloCity taking flight in Paris, touting it as the Tesla of the skies.

In the very near future, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) will be available for commercial usage, revolutionising transportation networks with urban air mobility. Paris is home to the most recent advancement in electric air mobility, where air-taxi pioneer Volocopter GmbH tested its two-passenger eVTOL plane before it was commercially available.

A video of the two-seater VoloCity air taxi from Volocopter doing its "first integrated flight in conventional air traffic outside of Paris" was published by Reuters earlier this month.

Dirk Hoke, the CEO of Volocopter, said VoloCity  "provides an additional emission-free transport option for the public. Every test is one step closer to commercialization in time for 2024."

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