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Joby Aviation Partners With Uber For Air Rideshare
Courtesy of Uber
Uber announced a partnership with eVTOL (electric takeoff and landing) startup Joby Aviation to launch Uber Air — an all-electric air taxi service.
Why It Hits: Uber is ramping up collaborations across industries to ensure it’s first in line for the newest transportation tech, dipping its toes in carsharing, robotaxis, and now airtaxis. It’s the company’s insurance plan to help you get wherever you need to go. So how long until we get go-fast boats in the Caribbean?
Behind The Trips: Uber Air may soon be the best way to beat morning traffic.
The service allows users to book a flight directly in the Uber app.
It also coordinates an Uber Black for both pickup and drop-off at the “vertiport.”
The service will first roll out in Dubai later this year, expanding to additional regions as it secures government approval.
Final Route: Uber has wanted to take to the skies for a while. It operated a helicopter service from Salt Lake City to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival in 2016… but that was short-lived. The infrastructure for “airshare” (did we just coin that term?) simply wasn’t there yet. Now, though, the eVTOL industry has been building that infrastructure for years and is ramping up deployment plans across Asia, the Middle East, and right here in the US.
It sounds like the FAA may need to hire a lot more air traffic controllers.
Next Flight: With a top speed of 200 mph and a range of 100 miles on a single charge, the new executive perk might just be an Uber Air expense account — to get to and from meetings in record time.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.