Electric air taxis to make their debut in Brazil’s most congested city
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#5PTKR)
A Dublin-based company is promising zero-emission journeys across traffic-choked Sao Paulo, Latin America's biggest city
The skies over Latin America's largest city are set to witness a futuristic aerospace revolution after the Brazilian budget airline Gol struck a deal that could see it ferry commuters around Sao Paulo in hundreds of low-cost zero-emission electric air taxis.
It's going to be an absolute disrupter. We're going to democratise air travel," Domhnal Slattery, chief executive of the group that will provide the aircraft to Gol, claimed in an interview with the Financial Times.
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