Uber's Electric Flying Taxis Past Breakthroughs

Uber said it would like to see flying vehicles being demoed in 2020 .

Electrical vertical take off and landing aircraft, or V toll aircraft, are the perfect design for personal air taxis.

The company wants a flight range of about 25 to 60 miles or 40 to 100 kilometres and wants to carry about two to five passengers.

Uber is calling this new infrastructure the Uber Elevate network.

There's been a lot of progress made in the past year due to the growing acceptance that electric cars are on the horizon.

Battery suppliers and others that are in the battery industry are forced to push the limits of their technology in the hope that they can be a player in this emerging market.

A new technology called Active Battery Management Systems uses a special algorithm to tackle this problem on a 3000 milliamp hour battery.

With the major hurdle of batteries coming close to being overcome, it seems like Uber 's vision of a personal air taxi network could actually become a reality.

I think it's important that as a battery company that we stop playing with fancy science and focus on real world results.

The state of empty promises and fake news in the battery industry must stop.