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A comment on Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi factory near Sao Paulo. Parent comment

Re:Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi fact... by myth2018 on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:14PM (#36910917)
> That's pretty much giving it (majority control) up for free, and the rest for very cheap.

It appears that Bombardier took some other financial aspects in consideration before they made that decision. I have no further knowledge, and that would be more than I'm willing to research for this discussion. Besides, this is tangential to the Embraer x Bombardier debate.

> but the E2 and the C-Series aren't really in the same segment

Indeed, but there's some overlap between the largest E2 and the smallest C-Series, while the E2 is much cheaper.

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Re:Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi fact... by bobthepanda on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:52PM (#36922080)
Multiple parts of Bombardier were failing at the time, particularly its trains division which was fire sold to Alstom.
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Re:Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi fact... by sofixa on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:46AM (#36929819)
Bombardier's trains division wasn't failing, it was just that Bombardier the company was overleveradged on getting the C-Series out. What that failed, they were massively in debt, and had to do a fire sale on everything of value (CRJ, trains division).
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