Hyundai, Flying Taxies & Miami

Miami Becoming a Global Capital of Flying Taxis

Flying Taxi Partnership Between Hyundai & Miami

Hyundai's urban air mobility division, Supernal, has signed an agreement with the city of Miami to launch air taxi services in South Florida by 2028.  The agreement establishes a framework to win buy in from industry and community stakeholders in order to achieve the regulatory approvals needed to start air taxi services. 

Strategic Flying Plan

Supernal is a young startup, formed by Hyundai in November 2021. The agreement to start operations in Miami is their first air taxi deal. Supernal's strategic plan is to develop an air taxi network as an integrated component of an end-to-end ridesharing, app-based system. The company is currently developing their air taxi model with Boston Dynamics, HTWO and Motional. From the artist renderings of the eVTOL, it appears to be a tilt rotor, propulsion design aircraft with fixed wings.  The vehicle would carry 4 to 5 passengers.  It would fly short, intracity travel routes and takeoff and land from specialized vertiports.

Busy, Crowded, Competitive Skies

Supernal is one of more than a dozen, prominent eVTOL developers looking to build and deploy low noise, zero emissions air taxies for commuting in densely populated cities.  Several companies like the US' Joby Aviation and Archer Aviation have committed to establishing operations in Miami.  Archer is partnering with REFF Technologies to use their parking lot systems as skyports with flying taxi services to start in 2024.  Meanwhile, Germany's Lilium eVTOLs is in the process of establishing operations and vertiports in major cities throughout Florida with its US operational headquarters outside of Orlando.  Miami and the state of Florida appear destined to be global centers of urban air mobility.  To view more, new flying concepts, go to https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B093J89VF5&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_6VEYQT0HHM7MBPJ5XCG9