Porsche and Boeing building eVTOL

Porsche is partnering with Boeing to build an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) to create a premium urban air mobility service. Porsche is playing catch-up to Daimler, which has already invested in all-electric air taxi startup ‚ÄòVolocopter‘ and already has working prototypes. Porsche is going to be working with Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of Boeing. Porsche just entered the all-electric space in its main business, cars, with the Taycan. Boeing, with hundreds of patents in this space, already has a eVTOL (shown below), but maybe it needs a partner with consumer brand recognition and distribution.  And design talent.

Designed for fully autonomous flight.

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