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Paris Selects 30 Partners For Its Urban Air Mobility Initiative
Volocopter, Airbus, Ascendance Flight Technologies, Vertical Aerospace, EHang, and Pipistrel are the eVTOL aircraft developers that will participate in the Re.Invent Air Mobility Challenge.
Paris Re.Invent Air Mobility Challenge
The Choose Paris Region agency, along with Aeroports de Paris and ground transportation provider RATP are leading the Re.Invent Air Mobility Challenge project. (Image: Choose Paris Region)

Officials in Paris have selected 30 companies and organizations as partners for plans to develop urban air mobility services in the French capital. Development work is due to begin in June 2021 with “experiments” to be conducted in the test area established at the end of September 2020 at the Pontoise-Cormeilles-en-Vexin airport.

The partners were chosen from 150 applications from 25 countries. They will form working groups to cover five key sets of issues needing to be addressed to meet the goal of launching air taxi operations on a trial basis in 2024, in time for the Paris Olympic Games.