{"id":83597,"date":"2025-09-10T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83597"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:05:16","slug":"joby-aviation-uber-add-blade-flights-app-electric-air-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83597","title":{"rendered":"Joby Aviation and Uber to add Blade flights to Uber App, paving way for electric air taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less than two weeks after completing its acquisition of aerial mobility business Blade, eVTOL air taxi developer Joby Aviation<\/a> has expanded an ongoing partnership with Uber, Inc. to bring those flights to the popular rideshare app.<\/p>\n

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Regarding eVTOL development news, Joby Aviation ($JOBY)<\/a> is a regular on the Electrek<\/em> homepage. Joby is one of dozens of aerial mobility developers seeking certification to begin commercial air taxi operations worldwide with passengers on board.<\/p>\n

However, Joby only began eVTOL test flights in the US with a pilot on board two years ago<\/a>, followed by test flights in Japan in front of long-standing partner Toyota<\/a> last November, and most recently, piloted flights in the United Arab Emirates this past June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, November 12, 2023, Joby Aviation\u2019s bespoke eVTOL took off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport and performed an exhibition flight across New York City ahead of plans for full commercial air taxi operations led by Joby in 2025.<\/p>\n

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That has yet to happen, but it moved closer than ever to reality last month, when Joby successfully acquired Blade<\/a>, an established network of terminals and existing customers in markets like New York and Southern Europe.<\/p>\n

Blade will continue its aerial and heliport operations<\/a> as a subsidiary of Joby. However, the eVTOL developer is immediately implementing those air taxi services into the Uber App through a global partnership with the rideshare behemoth. <\/p>\n

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Joby to expedite eVTOL air taxi rides with Blade and Uber<\/h2>\n

Per Joby Aviation, it is expanding its global partnership<\/a> with Uber Technologies to integrate the recently acquired Blade passenger business into the Uber App as early as next year. Joby and Uber have been working together since 2019, and in 2021, the former even acquired Uber\u2019s Elevate division, which was focused on developing on-demand urban air transportation and eVTOL air taxi systems.<\/p>\n

The eVTOL developer explained that the growing partnership with Uber \u201clays the foundation\u201d for introducing its zero-emissions air taxis in key markets. Joby founder CEO JoeBen Bevirt elaborated:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re excited to introduce Uber customers to the magic of seamless urban air travel. Integrating Blade into the Uber app is the natural next step in our global partnership with Uber and will lay the foundation for the introduction of our quiet, zero-emissions aircraft in the years ahead. Together with Uber\u2019s global platform and Blade\u2019s proven network, we\u2019re setting the stage for a new era of air travel worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Joby\u2019s new air travel business from Blade flew over 50,000 passengers in 2024, operating from heliports in Manhattan to JFK airport and Newark Airport, or the Hamptons. In Europe, Blade offers flights from Nice to Monaco and Cannes and operations in St. Tropez and the French Riviera.<\/p>\n

Through the acquisition, Joby intends to utilize Blade\u2019s existing infrastructure and experience to accelerate its own launch of electric air taxi services. Currently, those planned markets include\u00a0Dubai, New York, Los Angeles, the\u00a0United Kingdom, and\u00a0Japan.<\/p>\n

Following its latest deal, Joby\u2019s pending air taxi flights will be accessible through the Uber app. Uber president and COO Andrew Macdonald also spoke:<\/p>\n

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Since Uber\u2019s earliest days, we\u2019ve believed in the power of advanced air mobility to deliver safe, quiet, and sustainable transportation to cities around the world. By harnessing the scale of the Uber platform and partnering with Joby, the industry leader in advanced air mobility, we\u2019re excited to bring our customers the next generation of travel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So next year, you may be able to open the Uber app, order a robotaxi to a Manhattan heliport, then take an eVTOL air taxi to the airport for your flight. That\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

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Less than two weeks after completing its acquisition of aerial mobility business Blade, eVTOL air taxi developer Joby Aviation has expanded an ongoing partnership with Uber, Inc. to bring those flights to the popular rideshare app. Regarding eVTOL development news, Joby Aviation ($JOBY) is a regular on the Electrek homepage. Joby is one of dozens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}