Tag: taxis
Flying taxis are delayed taking off
A Volocopter “Volocity” air taxi on display during the Paris Air Show, at Paris-Le Bourget airport, June 18, 2023. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP The flying taxis were intended to…
Flying taxis at the 2024 Olympics: ADP “fully mobilized” despite setbacks – 02/19/2024 at 12:21
(AFP / JULIEN DE ROSA) Groupe ADP, manager of Paris airports, said on Monday that it remained “fully mobilized” to bring to fruition the project to experiment with electric flying…
Olympic Games-2024: taxis and VTCs in turmoil
A demonstration by VTC drivers on January 24, 2024, in Paris (AFP/Archives/Thomas SAMSON) Concert of horns, snail operations: taxis and VTCs are ready for a showdown to defend their rights…
Taxis in turn mobilized this Monday, with several rallies organized throughout France
Taxis take part in a demonstration as part of a national strike movement against the Health Insurance bill on “patient carpooling”, in Marseille, southern France, January 29, 2024. NICOLAS TUCAT…
Taxis in turn mobilized, snail operations throughout France
Demonstration in Lille on December 11, 2023 by taxis against the conditions of remuneration for patient transport (AFP/Archives/Denis Charlet) Taxis are blocking several major routes across France on Monday in…
Attacked for unfair competition, Uber wins a lawsuit against French taxis – 12/22/2023 at 2:30 p.m.
Taxi drivers block the ring road in Toulouse during a demonstration against the transport service Uber and “tourist cars with chauffeur” (VTC), April 4, 2016. (AFP / REMY GABALDA) More…
Uber wins legal battle against nearly two thousand taxis
Dozens of taxis protest against rising fuel prices as they travel from Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle international airport to Bercy, Paris, March 30, 2022. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP “The companies Uber…
In New York, a demonstration of electric flying taxis makes eVTOL manufacturers dream
A demonstration organized this weekend in New York provided an idea of what electrified flights will look like in the future. Joby Aviation and Volocopter have in fact carried out…
Parisian elected officials reject flying taxis
A flying taxi model presented by the Volocopter company in April 2019 in Singapore. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP The project to experiment with flying taxis on the Seine is still…
Barely on the road, these autonomous taxis are already losing their driving license!
Alexandre Boero Clubic news manager October 26, 2023 at 12:47 p.m. 16 © Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com The California Motor Vehicle Authority has asked an operator of autonomous taxis to…
Olympic flying taxis deemed too noisy and too greedy by the Environmental Authority
A VoloCity flying taxi, exhibited during the International Air and Space Show, at Le Bourget airport (Seine-Saint-Denis), June 18, 2023. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP Flying taxis are expected to…
Flying taxis for the 2024 Olympics: it’s not yet won (and that’s good?)
Samir Rahmoune September 11, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. 7 © Boykov / Shutterstock The flying taxi base which is to be created for the 2024 Olympic Games is facing a…