The promise of electric air taxis is still interesting to some companies, but will this era actually arrive in this decade?
Archer's planned Midnight craft is intended for back-to-back trips of just 20 miles, with a 10-minute charging session in between, and is designed to carry a pilot plus four passengers. But the craft is designed to have a nominal range of 100 miles on a full charge.
The craft is aimed at the air taxi business, which enjoyed quite a lot of publicity in the second half of the 2010s with fanciful plans from the likes of Uber, but has now cooled down along with the overly optimistic Level 5 autonomy bubble of the same time period. Archer is one of the"finalists" that have hung on to the dream of short trips in electric VTOL craft, thanks in part to continuing help from Stellantis.
However, this industry has yet to reach a critical mass when it comes to operational debuts, with a number of eVTOL hopefuls planning to begin production in the next couple of years.
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