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Electric air taxis to make their debut in Brazil’s most congested city
A Dublin-based company is promising zero-emission journeys across traffic-choked São Paulo, Latin America’s biggest city
www.theguardian.com
A Dublin-based company is promising zero-emission journeys across traffic-choked São Paulo, Latin America’s biggest city
The skies over Latin America’s largest city are set to witness a futuristic aerospace revolution after the Brazilian budget airline Gol struck a deal that could see it ferry commuters around São Paulo in hundreds of low-cost zero-emission electric air taxis.
“It’s going to be an absolute disrupter. We’re going to democratise air travel,” Dómhnal Slattery, chief executive of the group that will provide the aircraft to Gol, claimed in an interview with the Financial Times.
Slattery, from the Dublin-based firm Avolon, which recently placed an order for 500 of the aircraft from their British manufacturer, admitted helicopters were the “domain of the ultra wealthy”. Nowhere is that more true than in Brazil’s economic capital where South America’s super-rich have long used them to hop between luxury beach properties, ranches and heavily guarded compounds.
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Coming soon to a city near you. I wonder where the FAA is on establishing regulations for these as they could become a hazard to existing aviation.