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'Look! Up In The Air! It's A Honda!': Automakers Pursue VTOL Dreams
01 Mar 2023 | Abstracted from Forbes
"Honda, Stellantis, Hyundai and Porsche are among auto companies that already have invested in a fledgling form of flying taxi: vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (VTOLs).
"The automaker is pressing its gas turbine-electric motor hybrid approach and carbon fuselage ...give the vehicle a range of more than 400 kilometers, about four times further than purely electric VTOLs...Auto companies come in with a past decade of experience in electrifying platforms.."
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