passenger drone Archives - TechGoing https://www.techgoing.com/tag/passenger-drone/ Technology News and Reviews Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:27:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Israeli startup AIR achieves its first unmanned flight https://www.techgoing.com/israeli-startup-air-achieves-its-first-unmanned-flight/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:27:17 +0000 https://www.techgoing.com/?p=56615 An Israeli-made electric car designed to allow commuters to make short trips through crowded streets has achieved its first driverless flight, a milestone that the developer says will help bring it to market in the next two years, Reuters reported. ▲ An employee of Israeli startup AIR sits in a prototype of the AIR ONE […]

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]]> An Israeli-made electric car designed to allow commuters to make short trips through crowded streets has achieved its first driverless flight, a milestone that the developer says will help bring it to market in the next two years, Reuters reported.

▲ An employee of Israeli startup AIR sits in a prototype of the AIR ONE

Considering the tremendous advances in drone technology, the test phase of the voyage may not seem surprising at first glance. Another propeller plane rises vertically from the ground and then sprints high into the air.

▲ Image source Reuters

The driverless car, developed by Israeli startup AIR, can carry two people, an operator and a passenger, for up to 100 miles (about 160.93 kilometers) on a single charge. AIR and many of its competitors around the world believe that this type of travel will eventually become commonplace.

This is an important milestone,” said the company’s CEO and co-founder, Rani Prout, “and the fact that we have transitioned to forward flight today brings us one step closer to our dream of mass production of the AIR ONE.

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]]> Hyundai Motor Group and Rolls-Royce Holdings join hands for a sustainable future for air mobility https://www.techgoing.com/hyundai-motor-group-and-rolls-royce-holdings-join-hands-for-a-sustainable-future-for-air-mobility/ Tue, 19 Jul 2022 04:15:13 +0000 https://www.techgoing.com/?p=9040 A Memorandum of Understanding signed between Hyundai Motor Group and Rolls-Royce Holdings, promises a sustainable future for air mobility. The companies are collaborating to develop propulsion systems for passenger drones that would run on electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The collaboration aims to combine Rolls Royce’s expertise in aviation with Hyundai’s BEV and hydrogen […]

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]]> A Memorandum of Understanding signed between Hyundai Motor Group and Rolls-Royce Holdings, promises a sustainable future for air mobility. The companies are collaborating to develop propulsion systems for passenger drones that would run on electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The collaboration aims to combine Rolls Royce’s expertise in aviation with Hyundai’s BEV and hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Not to confuse with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd., Rolls Royce Holdings has been an established player in the aviation industry and serves customers that comprise more than 400 airlines and leases in over 150 nations.

Jaiwon Shin, the President of Hyundai Motor Group said, “We are pleased to partner with Rolls-Royce to draw upon their aviation and certification expertise”. He further added that this would help fasten the development of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion systems. According to him, this is the key technology that would help achieve the global aviation industry’s mission to achieve zero-emission air travel by 2050.

Hyundai Motor Group has been bringing in sustainable solutions in its products including the use of EV technologies. If we look at all its doing across its Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, and IONIQ marques, the thrust has been at using electric power. As hydrogen is being used as the fuel source in the propulsion systems that it plans to develop with Rolls-Royce Holdings, it will offer the benefits of electric propulsion (suppressed sound and low emissions) as well as long range.

Together, Hyundai and Rolls-Royce Holdings join a large and growing band of eVTOL developers that aim to come up with scalable, zero-emission technologies in the aviation industry.

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