{"id":95105,"date":"2019-08-22T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi"},"modified":"2019-08-22T07:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:42:57","slug":"volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi","title":{"rendered":"Volocopter reveals its first commercial aircraft, the VoloCity air taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"VoloCity_takes_off_into_night\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg\" alt=\"VoloCity takes off into night\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg 4600w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=150,85 150w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=300,170 300w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=768,434 768w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=680,384 680w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=50,28 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px)  100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s a race to the skies in terms of which company actually deploys an on-demand air taxi service based around electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. For its part, German startup Volocopter is taking another key step with the revelation of its first aircraft designed for actual commercial use, the VoloCity.<\/p>\n<p>The VoloCity is the fourth-generation eVTOL vehicle that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/volocopter\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"volocopter\">Volocopter<\/a> has created, but the first three were created for testing and demonstration purposes, and have flown more than 1,000 times in service of that goal. The VoloCity, an 18-rotor VTOL with a range of around 35 km (just under 22 miles) and a top speed of about 70 mph, is designed for transporting up to two people, including light luggage like backpacks, briefcases or purses.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"VoloCity_Top\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg\" alt=\"VoloCity Top\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg 4096w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=150,84 150w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=680,383 680w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volocopter-reveals-its-first-commercial-aircraft-the-volocity-air-taxi.jpg?resize=50,28 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px)  100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a race to the skies in terms of which company actually deploys an on-demand air taxi service based around electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. For its part, German startup Volocopter is taking another key step with the revelation of its first aircraft designed for actual commercial use, the VoloCity. The VoloCity is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}