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eVTOL Aircraft Make the Case For Advanced Air Mobility At the Paris Air Show
Volocopter's 2X eVTOL technology demonstrator opened the daily flying display, demonstrating the low noise levels it is hoped will make the new aircraft acceptable in cities.
Volocopter's 2X eVTOL vehicle in the 2023 Paris Air Show flying display.
Volocopter's 2X eVTOL vehicle opened the daily flying display at this week's Paris Air Show. (Image: AIN/David McIntosh)

The eVTOL aircraft upstarts breezed into the French capital this week demonstrating at the 2023 Paris Air Show that their time has come. The attention-grabbing new electric vehicles that promise to revolutionize the way people and things move around truly claimed their place on the aerospace world stage, with Volocopter’s 2X model silently opening the daily flying display—a first at a major international air show.

The two-seat air taxi, which the German company intends to bring to market as the VoloCity, is due back in Paris next year for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games as part of the Re.Invent Mobility exercise, which will see it used for flights connecting Charles de Gaulle Airport and the Media Village hosted at Le Bourget Airport. It might also be pressed into emergency medical services, with Germany's ambulance group ADAC announcing today a partnership with Volocopter that could see it add up to 150 VoloCity vehicles to its fleet.