Forget flying taxis this company is building a 40 seater flying bus
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying sky taxis that can take upto four passengers are great, but they’re not going to solve our cities congestion problems alone. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Braeden Kelekona is wedged...
The UK’s first flying taxi SkyPorts will be built in Coventry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Urban traffic congestion is clogging and polluting cities so some companies are looking to the skies. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A year or so after Uber ran a competition to...
Hyundai’s walking flying autonomous car might be the future of disaster relief
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re reinventing the car, and adding legs gives it a whole new dimension … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When we think about the future of transport it looks like everything...
Flying-taxi company Volocopter now selling tickets for first time riders
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying taxis, flying cars, call them what you will, are getting closer to entering service, and this is the first time a company has sold tickets to travel in them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself...
Hyperion’s XP-1 hypercar is a hydrogen monster looking for a re-fuelling station
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hydrogen or electric cars? The technology that wins will be determined by the one with the most accessible charging and fuelling infrastructure… Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past few...
Uber unveils its latest flying taxi designs for Australia
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The more people talk about and experiment with new technologies, like flying taxis, the more likely they are to get deployed. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. With plans already in...
Airbus show off their first flying taxi prototype as it takes to the skies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Traffic jams are synonymous with cars, and both are global issues, so companies are looking to the future and trying to reinvent travel and mobility. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
AirSpeeder gets set to launch flying car races in 2021
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As drones get larger and flying cars take flight it’s inevitable that someone’s going to want to race them and create a new sport. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the power to weight ratios of drones increase,...
Boeing and Porsche team up to build flying cars for the rich
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The race is on to capture the publics imagination and create concepts for the next generation of transportation – flying cars. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It looks like no one wants to be disrupted in the...
Airbus and Audi join forces and unveil their flying taxi concept
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It seems noone wants to be left out of the flying Robo-Taxi race, so now Audi are teaming up with Airbus to develop their own concept. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Flying Robo-Taxis, which rather than the...
Volocopter completes its first flying taxi flight in Europe
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As multiple technologies develop and converge the future of transport is increasingly looking skywards. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The team at Volocopter, who in 2017 flew their flying taxi around the skyscrapers of Dubai, has ticked...
Goodyear unveils it’s flying car tilt rotor tyre concept
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying taxis are arriving, albeit in drone form, but the dream of actual flying cars is far from dead. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. If you watch any science fiction movie none of the flying vehicles or cars...
Hydrogen powered sky taxi boasts record breaking 400km range
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Traditional ground transportation has had its day, but it’s going take a long time before sky taxi’s are ready for mass transport duties. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Hydrogen is still lagging behind electric batteries as an energy...
Autonomous planes, hypersonic jets and flying cars, Boeing unveils its future
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day aircraft will be fully autonomous, but getting there is a journey of many steps and this is one of them, and Boeing is placing its bets. Everything it seems these days is going autonomous, from cars, trains and trucks, to giant cargo ships...
Breakthrough carbon fiber battery could usher in batteryless electric vehicles
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our understanding of how to turn mundane objects and materials into batteries increases in the future anything and everything could be a battery. As I discussed a little while ago Carbon Fiber is going through its own little revolution, firstly it can now...
Aston Martin unveils its first stunning flying car concept
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the technology to build flying cars improves, and as companies start to look rolling out the first services, the competition is heating up. Lamborghini recently unveiled their first electric hyper car concept where the car is the battery, but now Aston Martin, the iconic...
Rolls Royce unveil their new flying taxi
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more companies pile into the flying taxi market it’s increasingly likely that you’ll start seeing them appear in cities near you, kickstarting the next transportation revolution. British engine maker Rolls Royce revealed its plans this week to develop a hybrid electric vehicle, dubbed...
Uber reveals six of its favourite flying taxi Skyport concepts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more companies become interested, and invest, in flying taxi’s, companies like Airbus and Uber are keen to be at the forefront of the revolution. Stout cylindrical towers that cars can fly inside and stacked landing pods are among the proposals that architects and...
Volocopter puts its sky taxi through its paces above the skies of Dubai
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more companies experiment with new flying taxi vehicles and commercial concepts Volocopter is increasingly finding itself edging into the lead. Dubai is moving full steam ahead toward a futuristic skyline dotted with modern skyscrapers and flying taxis by kicking off trials of the...
Dubai considers delaying the roll out of its flying taxi service
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying taxi’s are great, but like any other responsible country Dubai wants to make sure they meet all the safety standards before they’re rolled out Dubai is rapidly transforming itself into an Emirate that is embracing the future at full tilt, and early in...
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