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    Europe’s flying taxi dreams falter …as cash runs short

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     One of the innova­tions at this year’s Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service.

    Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-pow­ered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city.

    It never happened. Instead the company ran demonstra­tion flights.

    While missing that deadline was embarrassing, behind the scenes a more serious issue was playing out – Volocopter was urgently trying to raise fresh invest­ment to keep the firm going.

    Talks to borrow €100m (£83m; $106m) from the government failed in April.

    Now hopes are pinned on China’s Geely, which is in talks to take an 85 per cent stake in Volocopter in return for $95m of funding, accord­ing to a Bloomberg report. The deal could mean that any future manufacturing would be moved to China.

    Volocopter is one of doz­ens of companies around the world developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft.

    Their machines promise the flexibility of a helicopter, but without the cost, noise and emissions.

    However, faced with the massive cost of getting such novel aircraft approved by regulators and then building up manufacturing capa­bilities, some investors are bailing out.

    One of the most high-profile casualties is Lilium.

    The German company had developed a radical take on the EVTOL theme.

    Lilium’s aircraft uses 30 electric jets that can be tilted in unison to swing between vertical lift and forward flight.

    The concept proved attractive, with the company claiming to have orders and memoranda of understand­ing for 780 jets from around the world.

    —BBC



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