Sustainability and Environment
Uber Elevate Summit Lays Out 2023 Flight Plan
Uber's two-day June summit in Washington, D.C., laid out its ambitious air mobility plans, tempered a bit by regulators' remarks.
The Uber Elevate Summit 2019 held June 11-12 in Washington, D.C., included numerous panels of experts from across the aviation industry. Seen here from left is Kate Fraser of Uber, Pete Bunce of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Mike Romanowski of the FAA and Taiwan Shin of NASA. (Photo: Getty Images for Uber Elevate)
The Uber Elevate Summit 2019 held June 11-12 in Washington, D.C., included numerous panels of experts from across the aviation industry. Seen here from left is Kate Fraser of Uber, Pete Bunce of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Mike Romanowski of the FAA and Taiwan Shin of NASA. (Photo: Getty Images for Uber Elevate)

Ridesharing giant Uber believes it can leverage its ground network of 93 million monthly platform users and move them into the air—and soon. At the two-day-long Uber Elevate Summit in mid-June in Washington, D.C., Uber revealed its plans for replicating its ground network in the sky, unveiling new electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) designs that could compose its fleet as well as early plans for where it would initially fly its aircraft and the infrastructure that would support its operations.