On 14 September 2019, Volocopter 2X took flight for a 4 minute flight near the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The flight took place in front of a crowd of more than 12 000 people and as part of the “Vision Smart City” event supporting a research project by the Technical University of Stuttgart to examine the social acceptance of air taxis. It allowed people the get a feeling of what it will be like when air taxis become part of the existing mobility options in cities around the world.
At the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart technical innovations and sustainable transport concepts for future mobility were being presented. These include for example concepts of carsharing and electric vehicles to demonstrate to the public in a tangible and accessible way the versatile future mobility developments made in Baden-Württemberg.
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Volocopter brings urban air mobility (UAM) to megacities worldwide. We aim to improve quality of life for people in cities by offering a fantastic new mode of transportation. To this end, we create sustainable and scalable UAM ecosystems with partners in infrastructure and operations.
Volocopter’s family of eVTOL aircraft will offer passengers (VoloCity and VoloConnect) and goods (VoloDrone) swift, secure, and emission-free connections to their destinations, supported by the VoloIQ, the UAM ecosystem’s software platform that serves as its digital backbone for safe and efficient operations.
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Volocopter Flies Air Taxi over European City
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