6 hot startups that can make flying cars happen
- Companies creating electric aircraft for short-distance flights have secured hundreds of millions of dollars, but it will be years before any deliver on their goals.
- While you may have to wait to take your commute airborne, investors looking for payoffs in the shorter term have another way into this industry.
- Just as important as investing in the companies making aircraft is investing in those developing the myriad technologies that will enable the likes of Joby and Lilium to take off.
- We asked venture capitalists and industry experts to name the companies best-poised to succeed by enabling the flying-car future.
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Few investment realms are as riddled with unknowns as aerial mobility, the young field hoping to turn commuters into aeronauts with air taxis, or flying cars.
It’s a new form of aviation that uses novel propulsion strategies, and it requires world-class engineering, is up
