Notorious ‘vampire’ catfish which crave blood and can swim up a man’s URETHRA travel through the Amazon river by using larger host fish as ‘water taxis’, study finds A new study suggests vampire fish attach themselves to a larger host to navigate the difficult waters of the Amazon river In April 2019, researchers saw several … Read more
BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker gets £200-a-time round trip taxis between his Sheffield home and Manchester studios despite rubbishing the claims as fake news The 44-year-old angrily denied a report on the taxis in a Sunday tabloid last year It claimed he used BBC licence payers’ money for the £200-a-time round trip Taking to Twitter, the … Read more
BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker gets £200-a-time round trip taxis between his Sheffield home and Manchester studios despite rubbishing the claims as fake news The 44-year-old angrily denied a report on the taxis in a Sunday tabloid last year It claimed he used BBC licence payers’ money for the £200-a-time round trip Taking to Twitter, the … Read more
Advances in electric motors, battery technology and autonomous software has triggered an explosion in the field of electric air taxis. Larry Page, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet , has poured millions into aviation start-ups Zee Aero and Kitty Hawk, which are both striving to create all-electric flying cabs. Kitty Hawk is believed to be … Read more
Rolls-Royce planning to use attempt on world all-electric air-speed record as launchpad to develop flying taxis By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 February 2021 Rolls-Royce is planning to use its attempt on the world all-electric air-speed record this year as a launchpad to … Read more
Air taxis to fill the skies over Florida following the construction of 10 ‘vertiports’ across the state for the aircraft powered by 36 jet engines with 186 mile range German aviation firm Lilium is opening 10 air taxi hubs across Florida The hubs will be built by Ferrovial SE, a Spanish infrastructure company The first … Read more
The BBC has been slammed for blowing an eye-watering £350,000 on unused taxis, train fares and hotel stays in the last five years alone, figures have revealed. The broadcaster spent more than £273,000 on 5,455 train tickets, £64,800 on 600 hotel rooms and £25,000 on 1,631 taxi journeys – all of which were unused by its globetrotting staff. The BBC … Read more
Death of the black cab? Fifth of all London taxis are now off the road with hundreds stored on farmers’ fields and drivers on ‘starvation wages’ after passengers ‘evaporated’ during pandemic Number of licensed taxis in London dropped by 3,900 from June to November Black cab rental firms have been forced to hire fields around … Read more
South Korea offered a glimpse of a science-fiction future on Wednesday with a demonstration flight of a two-seat drone taxi in Seoul, as the government outlined ambitious plans to commercialise urban air travel by 2025. At an event held next to the Han River near Yeouido, a finance and banking district in the heart of … Read more
Air taxis could soon fill the skies of Orlando, Florida, as a German aviation firm is seeking tax incentives from the city to build a 56,000-square-foot transportation hub with a takeoff and landing area. Lilium Aviation plans to bring its five-passenger flying vehicles to the Lake Nona community, which would be a stepping stone to … Read more