flying taxi

Munich start-up Lilium, which develops a "flying taxi" received support from the Chinese IT giant Tencent, who invested in it. In addition, Liechtenstein's LGT Group, the British venture company Atomico, and the Obvious Ventures Foundation, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, are interested in development, which allowed the start-up to collect $ 90 million.

On the investment invested Lilium to develop a prototype of the aircraft, which will accommodate 5 people and fly at a speed of 300 km / h. The first victory is already in the hands of the startup: the tests of the two-seater flying machine were successful in April of this year.

Lilium was founded by four employees of the Munich Technical University in 2015. On a post of top-managers invited employees Get Taxi, Airbus and Tesla. Director of the company Remo Gerber is now looking for concepts based on different modern and not very technologies, like drones or aircraft. At the same time, he is confident that the new technology will be able to quickly adapt to the growth of cities and the stone jungle, since for such devices only a helipad is needed. But for the active production of the company will take several years.

At the moment, Lilium has already received support from the European Space Agency.