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A flying taxi service could be here in 2024 on February 25, 2021, 10:05 11 comments Forward-looking: California-based Joby Aviation, which has been working on an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) for an air taxi service, has released the first footage of the vehicle in flight, and it looks pretty impressive. Joby has been working on its eVTOL for over ten years and has performed over 1,000 test flights, but this is the first time it...

A blank-check company formed by LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman and Zynga Inc. founder Mark Pincus agreed to merge with Joby Aviation as a means to take the air-taxi startup public.

Joby Aviation, a Silicon Valley-headquartered air taxi company, will merge with Reinvent Technology Partners with the eventual goal of taking the startup public as it shows off its five-seat aircraft in flight and introduces a new chief financial officer.

SPACs Give Life to Air Taxis Posted on 02/24/2021 What could go wrong with zero-revenue air taxi companies? Founded in 2009, Joby Aviation is a California headquartered transportation company developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft which it intends to operate as a fast, quiet, and affordable air taxi service beginning in 2024. Joby Aviation intends to operate as a commercial passenger aircraft beginning in 2024. Joby Aviation has entered into a definitive business combi...

The company has a lot of big-name backers, including Toyota and Uber.

Urban air mobility company Joby Aviation is the latest company in the growing industry going public via a SPAC.  The SPAC Deal: Joby Aviation is going ...

Voltaiq Appoints Industry Pioneers to Strategic Advisory Board to Drive Electrification Innovation The newly appointed Voltaiq Advisory Board includes cross-industry and global representation that will fuel battery and electrification innovation around the world with the first and only Enterprise Battery Intelligence software platform News provided by Share this article Share this article BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Voltaiq, the leader in Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ ...

Share Credit: Joby Aviation Stop me if you have heard this before: A whole new class of aircraft will democratize and revolutionize seemingly everything, starting with air travel. Will it be advanced air mobility or maybe very light jets? Aviation consultant Brian Foley recalls the latter while thinking of the former, since both are in the news recently. Disruptive paradigms are not a new threat to aviation, even this century, he notes. The Eclipse very light jet (VLJ) was intended to make airb...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more You’re in a rush, your flight leaves soon and you need to get from Wall Street to the airport. You could hail a cab but with traffic you might make your flight — tomorrow. Instead, you head over the heliport and hop on a short flight over traffic. No, this is not the 1970s when New York Airways helicopters offered frequent flights between Wall Street and New York’s a...

By Jon Hemmerdinger2021-02-02T19:42:00+00:00 A new aerospace company led by former Boeing head Dennis Muilenburg has assembled an experienced management team and aims to advance technologies such as alternative propulsion, automation and manufacturing. That is according to documents recently disclosed by Muilenburg’s new venture – a “blank-check” investment company called New Vista Acquisition. Blank-check companies are publicly traded firms established for the sole purpose of raising...