Image credits: @theorigingroup on Twitter
Urban-Air Port, a British-based start-up, has partnered with car giant Hyundai Motor to develop the infrastructure required for when flying cars take to the skies to ferry around people and goods. This futuristic project, whose main aim is to demonstrate how “air taxis” would function in the future, is set to launch later this year.
From November, visitors to Coventry, United Kingdom, will be able to see what a flying car airport looks like and see a passenger-carrying drone and an operational electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle on the landing pad.
The company, Urban-Air Port, was given a $1.65 million grant by the UK Government for this project. It was chosen by a government program aimed at developing zero-emission flying and new air vehicles, says Reuters.
“With UK government backing and Hyundai Motor Group’s backing we’ll be realizing the first fully operational airport in the world,” Urban Air-Port founder and executive chairman Ricky Sandhu told Reuters on Friday.
Sandhu also stressed the importance of infrastructure for the same.
“You can’t get off the train or get on the train unless you get to the train station so that supporting ground infrastructure is absolutely key,” he said.
