Flying Cars Are Real—And They’re Not Bad for the Climate

Flying Cars Are Real—And They’re Not Bad for the Climate

On Thursday, the German start-up Lilium announced that it had completed its first test of that strange and buzzing vehicle, the five-seater Jet. By the middle of the next decade, Lilium claims, reserving a seat on one will be as easy as hailing an Uber. The successful flight puts Lilium near the front of a pack of companies that hope to fill the sky with small electric aircraft.