LONDON — An airport for flying cars will thrust the English town of Coventry into the upcoming later on this 12 months, with a task aimed at demonstrating how air taxis will do the job in city centers.

City-Air Port, a British-based mostly begin-up, has partnered with car big Hyundai Motor Team to establish the infrastructure essential for when flying cars choose to the skies to ferry all over folks and products.

From November, site visitors to Coventry will be ready to see what a flying car airport seems to be like and see a passenger-automobilerying drone and an operational electrical vertical consider-off and landing (eVTOL) motor vehicle on the landing pad.

Urban-Air Port was selected by a government system aimed at establishing zero-emission traveling and new air automobiles, winning a 1.2-million-pound ($1.65-million) grant to aid fund the short-term set up of the airport in Coventry town heart.

“With U.K. governing administration backing and Hyundai Motor Group’s backing we will be knowing the 1st completely operational airport in the entire world,” City Air-Port founder and government chairman Ricky Sandhu told Reuters on Friday.

Even though there has been progress on producing flying cars, Sandhu explained the infrastructure was the missing piece.

“You cannot get off the educate or get on the educate except if you get to the practice station, so that supporting floor infrastructure is certainly critical,” he claimed.