electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL)

Former Uber Elevate leaders build an ecosystem for electric regional aviation.

Company believes swappable battery design will make it easier to upgrade vehicle.

The European Parliament has taken a step toward creating policy that would encourage states to increase investment in electric regional and UAM technologies.

Wing has introduced a larger delivery drone, sized to fulfill larger orders.

Europe’s distributed-propulsion demo; cryocompressed hydrogen; uncrewed cargo eVTOL.

Canadian advanced air mobility startup Horizon Aircraft has gone public through a merger with a blank check company.

Japanese eVTOL startup SkyDrive has secured additional Series C funding through a third-party allotment of new shares to existing investor Suzuki Motor.

The U.S. Air Force has an interest in exploring small eVTOLs with light payloads between 400 and 500 lb., as well as even smaller aircraft with payloads of 100-250 lb.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

XPeng AeroHT plans to start making its “Land Aircraft Carrier:” an electric, off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger personal eVTOL aircraft in its trunk.

Lilium has announced a partnership with airport operator Fraport aimed at defining requirements for a network of vertiports across Germany and nearby countries.

Hyundai-backed Supernal unveiled the latest update to its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft concept at CES 2024.

California-based advanced air mobility startup Pivotal has begun selling its single-seat Helix personal eVTOL vehicle to U.S. customers.

Odys Aviation has partnered with Dubai-based Aramex to develop uncrewed cargo aircraft operations in the UAE, Oman and elsewhere in the Middle East.

NASA eyes Martian eVTOL; China’s electric LSA flies; Lithium-metal batteries for UAM; Wisk’s autonomous air taxi ConOps.

Ampaire CEO Kevin Noertker says a half-size version of its flagship product—the AMP-H270—is poised to hike performance of smaller general aviation aircraft.

Hydrogen-electric VTOL bizjet; AeroHT flies tiltwing eVTOL; hydrogen-testbed Bonanza; carbon-neutral single-aisle.

U.S. battery startup SES AI is targeting the urban air mobility market with its lithium-metal cells.

Japan’s SkyDrive has signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on heavy-lift drones with the Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation.

Wisk Aero has updated its concept of operations for autonomous urban air taxis.

EHang has conducted its first commercial flight demonstrations by a passenger-carrying electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

XPeng AeroHT, a subsidiary of vehicle maker XPeng, has completed the first uncrewed hover flight with a tiltwing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

Joby Aviation and NASA have simulated orchestrating 120 air taxi flights per hour in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.

Leaders of the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing race know the steps in developing and certifying a new aircraft cannot be skipped.

U.S. startup AIBOT has been gaining attention for its plan to integrate AI into its planned family of eVTOL vehicles.