Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft explores more about sustainable mobility solutions in Bangaluru (Bangalore) India’s Silicon Valley and a major IT HUB, where 80% of all the global IT giants have their offices in Bangaluru. Bangaluru’s economic contribution is a lot. The city boasts a GDP of $110 billion. The city’s GDP makes up over 87% of Karnataka’s total GDP. The Bangalore IT hub contributes the most (34% to 40%) of the total IT exports of India.

Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has partnered with Sarla Aviations named after Sarla Thakaral India’s first woman pilot to launch electric flying taxis, offering a 19-minute trip to Bengaluru’s  City Airport carrying upto six passengers, costing  about £17 less than Uber and Ola, to beat the city’s notorious traffic jams.

 Sarla Aviation’s co-founder and CEO Adrian Schmidt said “Currently a trip from Indiranagar to the Banglauru Airport can take about 1.5 hours, but with Sarla Aviation’s totally electric flying taxis, we will very soon cut that down to only five miutes”.

These electric aircrafts would be able to reach a maximum speed of up to 250km per hour, carrying seven passengers including pilot and only needs fifteen minutes to recharge between trips.