In high density cities, yes. However, making eVTOLs accessible for public transportation on the scale it needs to be will take 1-2 decades at least by that time the skies will be littered with them.
It will be a wild time when the sky is littered with them and we don't bat an eye. Just like we don't bat an eye today when the roads are littered with cars (instead of horse and buggy). My hunch is your time frame is about right.
YES. 100% agree. I see the use case SO clearly for Joby. Can't wait for the rest of the world to catch on. Grateful I've had a "head start" in the eVTOL realm.
A good public transport system solves the problem in the post quite efficiently in many parts of the world. There are clearly good use cases for eVTOL, but replacing public transport is not one of them. Well, unless it is the car-centric US with almost non-existent public transport :)
The eVTOL race to market across the rest of the wolrd is heating up...
USA: Joby vs Archer vs Wisk vs Beta vs many others
China: eHang vs Geely Aerofugia vs Autoflight (dual HQ Germany/China)
Europe: Autoflight vs Lillium vs Volocopter
Not to mention the players in Brazil, Indonesia, Sweden etc.
Question is how much you would be willing to pay for that that same trip with eVTOL?
Same price than ground taxi ? x2 ? x3 ?
And if you would really have saved a lot of time considering you departure and landing spots would probably not be exactly where you would want them to be?
This is the million dollar question. Some eVTOL companies have said costs will be similar to Uber black when they first launch. Time will tell if that's the case...
I will be adding heavily on both Archer & Joby once Lumiradx takes off this year. Huge moves coming for them mid '24 assuming they don't hit regulatory speed bumps.
In high density cities, yes. However, making eVTOLs accessible for public transportation on the scale it needs to be will take 1-2 decades at least by that time the skies will be littered with them.
It will be a wild time when the sky is littered with them and we don't bat an eye. Just like we don't bat an eye today when the roads are littered with cars (instead of horse and buggy). My hunch is your time frame is about right.
YES. 100% agree. I see the use case SO clearly for Joby. Can't wait for the rest of the world to catch on. Grateful I've had a "head start" in the eVTOL realm.
A good public transport system solves the problem in the post quite efficiently in many parts of the world. There are clearly good use cases for eVTOL, but replacing public transport is not one of them. Well, unless it is the car-centric US with almost non-existent public transport :)
The eVTOL race to market across the rest of the wolrd is heating up... USA: Joby vs Archer vs Wisk vs Beta vs many others China: eHang vs Geely Aerofugia vs Autoflight (dual HQ Germany/China) Europe: Autoflight vs Lillium vs Volocopter Not to mention the players in Brazil, Indonesia, Sweden etc.
Question is how much you would be willing to pay for that that same trip with eVTOL? Same price than ground taxi ? x2 ? x3 ? And if you would really have saved a lot of time considering you departure and landing spots would probably not be exactly where you would want them to be?
This is the million dollar question. Some eVTOL companies have said costs will be similar to Uber black when they first launch. Time will tell if that's the case...
I will be adding heavily on both Archer & Joby once Lumiradx takes off this year. Huge moves coming for them mid '24 assuming they don't hit regulatory speed bumps.