Uber and Hyundai have joined forces to develop a fleet of electric flying taxis

Your FLYING Uber is arriving! Hyundai and therefore the ride-hailing firm team to develop a fleet of electrical flying taxis, with an idea craft making its debut at CES

Hyundai will produce and deploy the vehicles and Uber will provide ride-share

The flying taxi seats four passengers with a pilot and may travel for 60 miles

Hyundai revealed an idea flying taxi at CES in Las Vegas in the week

Uber and Hyundai have joined forces to develop a fleet of electrical flying taxis.

The South Korean carmarker will produce and deploy the air vehicles, while the US firm will provide aerial ride-share services.

A concept electric aircraft was unveiled for the primary time at the buyer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Tuesday, which is meant to hold up to four passengers with a pilot and fly trips of up to 60 miles (100 km).

Other global players have unveiled investments in startups that aim to deploy electric flying cars capable of vertical takeoff and landing, but there are big technological and regulatory hurdles to the plans.

Hyundai is the first carmaker to join Uber's air taxi project, which also counts Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences among its partner firms

Uber and Hyundai, as an example , gave widely different timelines for commercialization, underlining these challenges.

'We've been making steady progress towards a goal of launching Uber Air by 2023,' Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate, said at the buyer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas .

Euisun Chung, Executive president of Hyundai, expects commercialization of urban air mobility service in 2028, saying it takes time for laws and systems to be in situ .