Porsche Consulting this week updated its earlier 2018 assessment of the urban air mobility market, publishing a new study that tempers what the company seems to view as somewhat overhyped expectations for commercial air taxi services using new eVTOL aircraft. In short, the German-based automotive group believes eVTOLs will become a significant part of the public transportation landscape over the next 15 years, but does not see them as being a be-all-and-end-all solution.
“Large parts of the population could then [over the next 15 years] use them like today’s taxis,” says the new report’s author Gregor Grandl, a senior partner with Porsche Consulting. “However air taxis alone cannot solve the current and future problems associated with traffic and transport, because their development and market success are linked to considerable risk and hurdles of both a technical and commercial nature.”
