Aviation is going through its most significant architectural shift since the jet engine, and the shift is electric. Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft — once dismissed as "flying car" novelties — have moved into active flight testing, multi-stage government certification, and, in a handful of cases, real ticketed operations. What started as a cluster of well-funded startups chasing a single vision (a piloted air taxi for city commuting) has broadened into a genuinely diverse industry: urban air mobility, airport-to-city connectors, regional transportation, autonomous cargo delivery, emergency medical response, defense logistics, and even consumer flying vehicles.