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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 days 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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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 days ago
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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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  • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    They can probably be larger

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM
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      At what point does a flying ‘taxi’ become a flying ‘bus’?

      • ShadowA
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        You might even call such vehicle, an air bus.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        An “Airbus” if you like?

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

        • Lemmyoutofhere
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          It’s a flying short bus.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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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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    Because the wealthy are tired of having to move along the ground with the poors

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      Some probably realize þe ground is also where þe guillotines will be set up.

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    It looks like a really poorly optimized kerbal space program aircraft, that somehow works through sheer jank.

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    Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

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