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ePlane aims to launch electric flying taxis in India by 2024

Bringing electric flying taxis to Indian skies will be no easy feat. But that’s precisely what The ePlane Company hopes to achieve in two years

Bringing electric flying taxis to Indian skies will be no easy feat. But that’s precisely what The ePlane Company hopes to achieve in two years.

The company,  founded by Indian Institute of Technology Madras Professor Satya Chakravarthy and IITian Pranjal Mehta, looks to revolutionise urban mobility with its fleet of compact electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

ePlane claims that its electric flying taxi, dubbed “e200”, will make door-to-door travel 10 times faster at twice the price of a comparable Uber ride. Additionally, e200 “takes off like a drone and flies a plane”. It will be able to take off and land from the rooftop of a 2-3 bedroom apartment and requires no elaborate infrastructure such as a helipad or runway.

While a non-flying prototype has already been stationed at India’s pavilion at the Dubai Expo, the company plans to have a flying prototype ready by September 2022. 

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