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Dwindling List Of EVTOL Firms Shrinks Further

January 29, 2025 admin airbus, Aviation, Boeing, China, clean transport, climate change, ehang, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, evtol, faa, green economy, investment, Manufacturing

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:18:48 +0000

The inevitable is occurring in the dead end space of Jetsons urban air mobility fantasies. Two more origami rotorcraft have left the vertiport for the great airplane graveyard in the sky as Volocopter disappears and Airbus drops its program. Volocopter was founded in 2011 in Bruchsal, Germany. Initially named e-Volo, … [continued]

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EHang Electric Air Taxi Completes Demo Flight in Shanghai — Autonomously

January 27, 2025 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, ehang, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, evtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:49 +0000

One of the leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft companies in the world, EHang, recently completed a demo flight of its autonomous (pilot-free) EH216-S, which is capable of carrying human passengers, in downtown Shanghai. “It served as an excellent backdrop to demonstrate the exceptional capabilities in convenience, safety, … [continued]

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Dangerous Downwash Is The 15th Reason Why A Jetsons EVTOL Future Won’t Happen

January 6, 2025 admin archer aviation, Aviation, China, clean transport, ehang, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, joby aviation, lilium, usa, volocopter

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:55:29 +0000

Over the past few years tens of billions of dollars, enormous numbers of hours of aerospace engineers’ precious time, and countless articles have been wasted on the Jetsons fantasy of quiet, electric, folding aircraft taking off and descending vertically amidst the towers and homes of our cities. Now the US … [continued]

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Lilium Lives!

December 28, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric air taxis, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, lilium

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:33:39 +0000

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Lilium running out of money. It seemed the dream had died. After 9 years and nearly 1,000 “preorders,” Lilium just couldn’t make it financially. It’s hard to get off the ground as a startup and reach profitability, even more so in an … [continued]

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EVTOLs Remain Grounded As Dreams Of Jetsons Lifestyle Doppler Into Future

November 25, 2024 admin Aviation, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric urban air mobility, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, urban air mobility

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:52:59 +0000

It’s been over three years since I bothered to publish an article on the dead end but glitzy space of urban air mobility with their origami electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft. Instead, I focused my aviation related assessments on how aviation will actually decarbonize over the next few … [continued]

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New Autonomous Air Taxi Trial in Thailand

November 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, Bangkok, clean transport, ehang, electric air taxis, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, evtol, Thailand, urban air mobility

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:29:12 +0000

Electric air taxis are not going to take over transportation. In my humble opinion, our skies are not going to be full of small aircraft that look like giant bugs. We won’t have swarms of aircraft risking collision and devastating crashes into buildings. However, I do believe that electric air … [continued]

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EHang Makes Flurry of Announcements on Its eVTOL Aicraft

November 18, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, ehang, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, evtol

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:29:47 +0000

The eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft space isn’t for everyone. Some people are crazy about it (perhaps too crazy) and others think it’s as much of a dead end as flying cars were in the 1950s. Frankly, I don’t know where I stand, but I’m interested to see … [continued]

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