Google's Larry Page, Boeing Flying EV
Wisk Aero
Big Push for Sustained Electric Powered Personal & Taxi Flight
Google founder Larry Page and his Kitty Hawk flying car startup are ramping up their alliance with aerospace giant Boeing to create electric flying vehicles. The vehicles are being categorized as flying cars. But Page and Boeing are targeting VTOLs, vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that are fully electric powered and autonomous. The core R&D effort is Cora, an electric air taxi vehicle that was successfully tested recently in New Zealand. The Kitty Hawk-Boeing R&D partnership has just been re-booted, re-branded and re-ignited as Wisk Aero and they are going full steam behind Cora.
VTOLs Are the Future of Personal Mobility
At the moment, Kitty Hawk's Cora is a semiautonomous electric vehicle that seats two passengers. Their goal is to make Cora fully autonomous and electric. Kitty Hawk believes Cora will be ideal to fly people as an air taxi in congested urban areas. Boeing brings massive scale and aerospace expertise to the future of this important development project.
Self-Flying Vehicles verses Self-Driving Cars
Kitty Hawk in October 2019 unveiled a single person flying vehicle called Heaviside and predicted that self-flying vehicles will happen before self-driving cars.
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Big Push for Sustained Electric Powered Personal & Taxi Flight
Google founder Larry Page and his Kitty Hawk flying car startup are ramping up their alliance with aerospace giant Boeing to create electric flying vehicles. The vehicles are being categorized as flying cars. But Page and Boeing are targeting VTOLs, vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that are fully electric powered and autonomous. The core R&D effort is Cora, an electric air taxi vehicle that was successfully tested recently in New Zealand. The Kitty Hawk-Boeing R&D partnership has just been re-booted, re-branded and re-ignited as Wisk Aero and they are going full steam behind Cora.
VTOLs Are the Future of Personal Mobility
At the moment, Kitty Hawk's Cora is a semiautonomous electric vehicle that seats two passengers. Their goal is to make Cora fully autonomous and electric. Kitty Hawk believes Cora will be ideal to fly people as an air taxi in congested urban areas. Boeing brings massive scale and aerospace expertise to the future of this important development project.
Self-Flying Vehicles verses Self-Driving Cars
Kitty Hawk in October 2019 unveiled a single person flying vehicle called Heaviside and predicted that self-flying vehicles will happen before self-driving cars.
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