The project is aimed at providing practical infrastructure for electric VTOL craft that could transport people and goods around cities in the future
Hyundai Motor Group, Coventry City Council and the UK Government have partnered with Urban Air Port to launch what is described as the world s first site – Air One – to demonstrate the potential of urban air mobility for the UK and worldwide.
The Urban Air Mobility Division of Hyundai Motor Group has chosen Urban Air Port as its priority infrastructure partner to support global growth of this new sector. The South Korean company plans to create its own e-VTOL aircraft and support the broader urban air mobility eco-system. Hyundai Motor Group is supporting the development of Air-One as part of its plan to commercialise its aircraft by 2028.
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One of the biggest drawbacks of eVTOLs (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft), besides lack of regulation, is the lack of infrastructure. While working on its own eVTOL, Hyundai has also imagined the first vertiport – and it’s a pop-up one. 6 photos
Hyundai prefers the name Urban Air Port instead of the vertiport term favored by other players in the game. This one is called Air-One, and it will be fully operational in November this year after it was chosen as the winner of the Future Flight Challenge by the UK government. It will be located in Conventry, England, and will take mere days to set up – hence the “pop-up” reference above.
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