After years of research and development and billions in investment, autonomous flying taxis are finally poised to take off. Companies working on these pilotless vehicles have been quietly working on prototypes. In this bonus from The Big Take, Bloomberg reporter Colum Murphy takes a test flight in one of the first models operating in China, and his colleague Angus Whitley explains why it’s a make or break moment for the industry.

Plus: Hear a past episode episode of Zero about flying cars with Venkat Viswanathan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has been working to create a battery that can power an aircraft on a trip over 200 miles.

<p>After years of research and development and billions in investment, autonomous flying taxis are finally poised to take off. Companies working on these pilotless vehicles have been quietly working on prototypes. In this bonus from The Big Take, Bloomberg reporter Colum Murphy takes a test flight in one of the first models operating in China, and his colleague Angus Whitley explains why it’s a make or break moment for the industry.</p>
<p>Plus: Hear <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/be042ea6-4d91-4f16-8376-afe200a12ba4">a past episode episode of Zero about flying cars with Venkat Viswanathan</a>, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has been working to create a battery that can power an aircraft on a trip over 200 miles.</p>

Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.

Zero: The Climate Race

Zero

Big Take: The billion-dollar promise of flying taxis

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1844fbdf-abf5-4639-bca0-b1e200bbadfb/transcript

Advertisement