The Canadian federal and Quebec provincial governments together will invest in projects at Bell, CAE and Pratt & Whitney Canada to develop technologies supporting the electrification and decarbonization of aviation.
Airbus has joined Canada’s SAF+ Consortium, which plans to build in Montreal the first power-to-liquids plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel from renewable electricity and captured carbon dioxide.
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions has partnered with an energy company to evaluate development of a viable charging infrastructure for electric air taxis.
Building on its concessions to manage highways, railways and tunnels in several countries, Spain’s Globalvia is expanding into urban air mobility through a strategic alliance with Chinese autonomous passenger and cargo air vehicle developer EHang.
As alternative propulsion concepts show promise to help decarbonize aviation, leaders in the commercial aviation, advanced air mobility and business aviation markets have joined forces to establish carbon credits for emissions reductions enabled by electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Drone Delivery Canada plans to test expedited deliveries from Edmonton International Airport in Alberta to local businesses under a yearlong project with the airport, Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile.
Only a fraction of the investment required to make urban air mobility (UAM) an economically or socially relevant mode of transportation has been raised, and players in the market will need to take the long view if they want to see a return on their investment, cautions a report by Porsche Consulting.
The leaders in advanced air mobility are storytellers, and the stories they tell are playing central roles in their plans to raise billions of dollars by going public via mergers with blank-check companies.
Hard on the heels of being appointed chief executive of delivery-drone developer Volansi, former assistant U.S. Air Force Secretary Will Roper has been named to the board of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Beta Technologies.
NASA has added aircraft autonomy developer Reliable Robotics and 13 other entities to the list of partners that will participate in the agency’s first Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign in 2022.
In 2018, Astro Aerospace became one of the first companies to fly a full-scale electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle. That same year, Astro became the first startup targeting the urban-air-mobility market to go public. But then the company went quiet.
Heaviside becomes the fourth electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (evTOL) aircraft to receive military flight release from the U.S. Air Force under its Agility Prime program.
Using its experience in providing on-demand helicopter service in New York and other cities, Blade Urban Air Mobility is working with electric air-taxi developers to tailor their aircraft to its operations.
With certification targeted for the end of 2022, Germany’s Volocopter has taken a major step toward moving its electric air taxi from development into production.
The distinctive, 100-kg (220-lb.) UAS100 has been designed to carry up to 10 kg with a radius of action of 100 km (62 mi.) and perform surveillance of critical infrastructure.
As it prepares to list on the New York Stock Exchange, on-demand private aviation provider Wheels Up has detailed its vision for expanding into the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market.
Australian startup Swoop Aero has completed a study in Mozambique that demonstrated the feasibility of using drones for the cold-chain transport of infectious tuberculosis and COVID-19 laboratory samples.
