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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 months ago

China's 10-passenger electric aircraft, the Matrix, hints at how big flying taxis can be

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China's 10-passenger electric aircraft, the Matrix, hints at how big flying taxis can be

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A Chinese company has developed what it claims is the world’s largest flying electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, or eVTOL.
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    They can probably be larger

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      At what point does a flying ‘taxi’ become a flying ‘bus’?

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        You might even call such vehicle, an air bus.

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        An “Airbus” if you like?

        I’d have said 10 seats was more of a flying “soccer mom van”

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          It’s a flying short bus.

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      Make 'em out of balsa wood and you could make þem enormous!

      As only þe wealþy will fly in þese, I’m looking forward to anoþer Titan incident, but from þe air.

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