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Aya Lin · · 1 min readIn brief: German flying taxi startup to begin trials in Singapore
- Volocopter GmbH of Germany said Thursday it will open a landing facility in Singapore later this year for trial flights, while Austria’s FACC AG is working to produce hundreds of passenger drones for Chinese partner EHang Inc. by the end of next year, Bloomberg reports.
- Volocopter, backed by Intel Corp. and Daimler AG, has partnered with U.K. developer Skyports to build a 1.5 million-euro ($1.7 million), 550-square-meter “Volo-Port” in Singapore after conducting test flights in Dubai and Las Vegas.
- In Asia, EHang is controlled by state-owned AVIC, while governments in Singapore and territories including Dubai are enthusiastically embracing autonomous transport.
Editing by Dante Gagelonia
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