{"id":416,"date":"2026-03-13T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:41:25","slug":"hyundai-likely-to-make-flying-cars-for-ubers-air-taxi-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/hyundai-likely-to-make-flying-cars-for-ubers-air-taxi-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai likely to make flying cars for Uber\u2019s air taxi service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A month\nbefore, Hyundai released a teaser of flying car, a concept it was bringing to\nthe Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The flying car prototype will now\nshowcase at CES this week. Not only will Hyundai produce these electric\nvertical takeoffs and landing (e-VTOL) aircraft on large scale, but it will\nalso put them to work for Uber\u2019s promised air taxi service.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you remember,\u00a0Uber<\/strong>\u00a0had announced its aerial ambitions\u00a0in 2016\u00a0with a white paper that name the project \u201cUber Elevate<\/strong>\u201d. The ride-hailing corporation has announced it requires to conduct its own test efforts in 2020 and plans to launch some version of an air taxi service in 2023,\u00a0starting in Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. Recently, Uber <\/strong>also announced that it will offer helicopter taxi service in New York\u00a0from lower Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Hyundai<\/strong> is along for the ride (flight?). It\u2019s noteworthy because Hyundai<\/strong> is, in essence, lending its manufacturing credibility to Uber\u2019s <\/strong>ambitious (if dubious) plan to launch an urban air taxi system by the mid-2020s. Based on the features, Hyundai\u2019s PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) won\u2019t be some Sonata in the sky. With two tilt-rotors on the tail, and 10 other rotors distributed around the egg-shaped cabin, the aircraft is designed to take off vertically, the transition to wing-borne lift in cruise, and then back to vertical flight to land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hyundai lending manufacturing credibility to Uber\u2019s plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The five-person vehicle will have a cruising\nspeed of 180 mph (290 km\/h) and a cruising altitude of around 1,000\u20132,000 feet\n(300\u2013600 meters) above ground. Hyundai says by using smaller, electric-powered\nrotors, the vehicle will produce less noise than a combustion engine\nhelicopter, which is crucial for cities worried about noise pollution. During\npeak hours, it will require only about five to seven minutes for\nrecharging. Hyundai<\/strong> says the flying<\/strong> car<\/strong>\nwill have a range of 60 miles between charging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all seems great and fantastically\nfuturistic on paper, but Hyundai<\/strong> is yet to test flying\ncars<\/strong>, piloted or otherwise, nor has it said how much all this\nwill cost. There have been a handful of small-scale test flights of e-VTOL\naircraft around the world, but none are currently in commercial operation. The\ntechnology is still in its very early days, and Uber <\/strong>and Hyundai, as\nwell as a variety of other players in the field, face enormous regulatory and\ntechnical challenges in getting their respective air taxi plans off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hyundai<\/strong>, still, is the first global automaker in the world to join\nforces with Uber <\/strong>for air taxi services. The automaker will produce and\ndeploy the electric aircraft, while Uber<\/strong> will provide airspace support,\nground operations, and, of course, the app through which customers can book\nflights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Uber <\/strong>said it\u2019s looking for partners that can meet its technical specifications, it had released images of its own\u00a0concept aircraft\u00a0last year ago, \u2014 electric-powered, minimal noise, and vertical takeoff and landing capabilities \u2014 as well as a company that can scale production to build tens of thousands of vehicles to meet the demand of on-demand service. Uber <\/strong>has struck similar arrangements with\u00a0seven other aerospace companies: Joby, Jaunt, Embraer, Pipistrel, Karem Aircraft, Aurora Flight Sciences, and Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A month before, Hyundai released a teaser of flying car, a concept it was bringing to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The flying car prototype will now showcase at CES this week. Not only will Hyundai produce these electric vertical takeoffs and landing (e-VTOL) aircraft on large scale, but it will also put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}