![]() “We lost our local car manufacturing industry, and I would like to see Australia develop an electric air taxi manufacturing capability,” said company CEO Ross Pelligra. It also dovetails with Pelligra’s efforts to repurpose some of its outdated holdings like the shuttered Holden and Ford automobile production plants in Victoria and South Australia for use by companies pursuing emerging technologies like electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air transport. The move follows the logic of Skyportz’s earlier link-up with Secure Parking, the owner of hundreds of parking garages in Australian cities that may be adapted to create rooftop vertiports designed for air taxi operation. ![]() Read: Skyportz unveils Oz’s first network of air taxi and UAM vertiports The move aims to accelerate the creation of ground structure needed for next-generation aerial services that are set to launch in just a couple years – and which several Australian cities have shown great interest in. ![]() Melbourne-based Skyportz recently announced it had joined forces with Australian real estate developer Pelligra to explore opportunities for establishing air taxi vertiport facilities at buildings in the company’s portfolio. ![]()
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