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Air taxi shaper Lilium is retired of wealth and volition cease operations
Lilium’s Jet eVTOL.Image: Lilium
Two years earlier German aerial taxi shaper Lilium promised to present its archetypal 2 craft to customers, the aerial taxi pioneer has tally retired of wealth and volition imminently halt making them. In a filing to the US SEC, Lilium says it cannot get the backing to proceed operations successful its subsidiaries (Lilium GmbH and Lilium eAircraft GmbH), and is going into insolvency. We’ve been covering the institution continually since 2017, erstwhile it successfully took its archetypal flight successful Germany.
Lilium had previously confirmed it had begun assembling its archetypal 2 all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft successful Germany, portion moving towards certification from the EASA and FAA, but its archetypal lawsuit deliveries weren’t slated until 2026. The FAA had just finalized its rules for eVTOL cognition requirements this week.
Air taxis and different electric-powered craft cleared for takeoff with last FAA rules
Image: Joby
The Federal Aviation Administration published highly anticipated final regulations for electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicles that it says volition illustration the way for the “air question of the future.”
The FAA says these “powered-lift” vehicles volition beryllium the archetypal wholly caller class of craft since helicopters were introduced successful 1940. These craft volition beryllium utilized for a assortment of services, including aerial taxis, cargo delivery, and rescue and retrieval operations. The last rules published contiguous incorporate guidelines for aviator grooming arsenic good arsenic operational requirements regarding minimum harmless altitudes and visibility.
Toyota puts different $500 cardinal successful an aerial taxi startup
Toyota is betting large connected aerial taxis.Image: Toyota
Toyota is investing different $500 cardinal successful Joby Aviation to enactment the aerial taxi startup’s certification and commercialized accumulation of eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) craft for usage successful a ridehailing service. The automaker has present invested a full of $894 cardinal since 2018.
Toyota’s concern volition travel successful the signifier of 2 $250 cardinal tranches, the archetypal of which volition beryllium completed this twelvemonth and the 2nd successful 2025. The automaker volition besides found a manufacturing confederation with Joby for the archetypal commercialization phase. The companies had signed an statement successful 2023 to fto Toyota marque powertrain components for Joby’s aerial taxi.
Archer targets LA for aerial taxi service.
The aviation startup said it would motorboat an “air mobility network” successful Los Angeles to combat the city’s notorious congestion. Vertiports, wherever Archer’s Midnight eVTOL craft volition takeoff and land, are being planned for LAX, Orange County, Santa Monica, Hollywood Burbank, Long Beach, Van Nuys, and the University of California. If the institution tin get the proper approvals from the FAA, work volition motorboat successful aboriginal 2026.
Trips that would instrumentality implicit an hr by car could instrumentality arsenic small arsenic 10-20 minutes successful Archer’s aerial taxis.Image: Archer
Lilium strikes income woody with Saudi Arabia for up to 100 eVTOL aircraft
Image: Lilium
Lilium, an electrical aviation institution based successful Germany, says it has secured a binding income statement for up to 100 electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft with Saudia Group, which operates the largest hose bearer successful Saudi Arabia and is wholly owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The statement is simply a “firm order” for 50 Lilium jets, with an enactment to acquisition up to 50 more, the institution said. The woody follows a 2022 memorandum of knowing betwixt Lilium and Saudia to research ways successful which battery-powered multi-rotor craft tin code the region’s proscription challenges.
Southwest Airlines and Archer onslaught a woody for an electrical aerial taxi network
Image: Archer
Today, Southwest Airlines became the latest large bearer to articulation forces with a alleged municipality aerial mobility startup. The Dallas-based hose signed a memorandum of knowing with Archer Aviation to gully up plans for an aerial taxi service.
The work volition run utilizing Archer’s battery-powered, four-passenger, tilt-rotor Midnight aircraft, which are designed to instrumentality disconnected and onshore vertically from a landing portion similar a helicopter. As portion of the deal, the craft volition get entree to 14 California airports wherever Southwest operates.
Archer Aviation gets the greenish airy to run an electrical aerial taxi service
Image: Archer
Archer Aviation, a starring electrical aviation institution based successful San Jose, California, announced that it has received a Part 135 aerial bearer certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, which the institution volition request to run an on-demand aerial taxi service.
That puts Archer connected the cusp of launching a fully-fledged commercialized work utilizing its electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. The institution has besides received Part 145 certification, which authorizes it to behaviour specialized craft repair services. The FAA besides precocious issued the last airworthiness criteria for the Midnight aircraft. Archer is lone the 2nd eVTOL institution to person Part 135 certification, after Joby Aviation successful 2022.
Pilotless aerial taxis? Joby sees the anticipation with caller acquisition
Image: Joby
Leading electrical aviation institution Joby Aviation said it has acquired the autonomy part from Xwing, an aviation startup that’s been moving connected pilotless formation projects for respective years. The presumption of the deal, which impact an magnitude of Joby stock, were not disclosed.
Joby’s electrical aerial taxis are inactive a mates years distant from launch, but the institution says it wants to presumption itself to instrumentality vantage of autonomous formation erstwhile the exertion is acceptable for commercialized application.
Airtaxis get a boost from Congress.
The precocious passed bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration contains a full conception connected “advanced aerial mobility,” which is an manufacture word for electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. According to The Air Current, the measure contains provisions that would marque it overmuch easier for archetypal procreation eVTOL operators similar Joby, Archer, Supernal and Beta — each of which person been spending brainsick wealth connected lobbying successful Washington — to motorboat commercialized airtaxi operations.
Stellantis inactive believes successful flying cars.
The automaker (parent institution to Jeep and Dodge) announced a acquisition of 8.3 cardinal shares successful eVTOL institution Archer, successful a woody astir worthy implicit $39 million. Stellantis already has a woody to manufacture Archer’s electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which are acceptable to motorboat successful 2025. Today’s unfastened marketplace banal acquisition is meant to awesome “Stellantis’ continued assurance successful Archer’s plans” to bring its craft to market. Despite galore layoffs, trade concealed disputes, and company shutdowns, the eVTOL existent believers are inactive racing to get thing successful the aerial to beryllium each this currency pain has been worthy it.
Archer’s eVTOL craft is meant for abbreviated region trips of 20-50 miles.Image: Stellantis
China cracks unfastened the doorway to flying taxis
EHang executives judge certification for the EHang 216-S.Image: EHang Holdings
Life is astonishing successful 2023 — we person tiny computers with astonishing cameras successful our pockets; massive, dirt-cheap (or free!) TVs; cars that (sort of) thrust themselves — but wherever are our flying cars and pitchy packs? The flying cars are astatine slightest successful China, oregon that’s wherever they’ll get their archetypal existent commercialized flights, anyway. EHang Holdings said past week that the authorities determination issued it a certification to commencement existent rider trials successful the country.
The institution volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality passengers connected aerial tours, which Bloomberg reported it volition connection done section partnerships successful Xinjiang state and Shenzen. The “type certificate,” issued by CAAC, China’s aviation authority, signifies that its E216-S aerial taxi “fully complies with CAAC’s information standards and airworthiness requirements.”
Airbus is investigating retired autonomous flying tech successful immoderate of its planes
Image: WENDELL TEODORO/AFP via Getty Images
Airbus is investigating retired a suite of caller automated exertion that it says has the imaginable to amended the information and ratio of flying.
The automated technology, which has been branded arsenic the company’s DragonFly project, includes “automated exigency diversion successful cruise, automatic landing, and taxi assistance,” Airbus says.
Stellantis volition mass-produce Archer’s electrical aerial taxi arsenic portion of $150 cardinal deal
Image: Archer
Stellantis announced a woody with aerial taxi startup Archer to mass-produce the company’s electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. The deal, which was announced during CES astatine Las Vegas, designates Stellantis arsenic the exclusive declaration shaper for Archer’s Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
As portion of the deal, Stellantis volition supply $150 cardinal successful equity superior for Archer to usage “at its discretion” successful 2023 and 2024, Archer said. The 2 companies entered into a definitive agreement to let Archer to entree Stellantis’ proviso concatenation and manufacturing expertise backmost successful January 2021. Now, they’re taking things a measurement further.
Delta Airlines volition put up to $200 cardinal successful Joby Aviation to make a ‘home-to-airport’ aerial taxi service
Delta Airlines volition put $60 cardinal successful Joby Aviation, a starring electrical aerial taxi startup, to make a “home-to-airport” work utilizing the startup’s five-seat electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the companies announced Tuesday. Delta said its concern successful Joby could spell arsenic precocious arsenic $200 cardinal if the institution hits definite milestones.
The service, which volition motorboat archetypal successful New York City and Los Angeles with different cities to follow, volition beryllium “mutually exclusive” crossed the US and UK for 5 years, with the enactment to widen that exclusivity for longer, the companies said. The home-to-airport work volition beryllium successful parallel to Joby’s presently nonexistent airdrome service, transporting passengers from cities to airports.
Boeing-backed Wisk Aero reveals a four-seater autonomous aerial taxi
Air taxi startup Wisk Aero unveiled its sixth-generation aircraft, an all-electric four-seater that tin alert without a quality pilot. The Boeing-backed company said it volition question support from the Federal Aviation Administration to transportation passengers arsenic portion of a commercialized aerial taxi service.
Wisk, which was formed successful 2019 arsenic a associated task betwixt Boeing and Kitty Hawk, the flying taxi institution bankrolled by Google co-founder Larry Page that recently unopen down, is successful a contention to go the archetypal alleged precocious aerial mobility institution to get the greenish airy from the FAA for rider testing. Wisk claims that its sixth-generation craft is the archetypal electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) campaigner for benignant certification.
United Airlines invests $15 cardinal successful electrical aviation startup, orders 200 aerial taxis
United says its acquisition of 200 aerial taxis from Eve Air is conditional.United Airlines
United Airlines is investing $15 cardinal successful Eve Air Mobility, an electrical aviation startup owned by Brazilian craft shaper Embraer. As portion of the deal, United volition acquisition 200 of Eve’s electrical aerial taxis, which tin spot 4 passengers and instrumentality disconnected and onshore vertically similar a helicopter.
This is the 2nd large concern from United successful the nascent satellite of electrical aerial mobility aft investing an undisclosed magnitude of wealth successful Archer past year. These companies suggest to make small, electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft that tin alert from rooftop to rooftop successful a dense metropolis arsenic a taxi service. But truthful far, nary person received clearance from national aviation regulators to alert passengers.
Joby Aviation inches person to getting afloat authorities support for its electrical aerial taxis
Joby Aviation, a starring electrical aviation institution based successful Northern California, announced that it has received its archetypal certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The bureau awarded the institution with a Part 135 aerial bearer certification, which Joby volition request to run an on-demand aerial taxi service.
The certification was awarded up of schedule, with Joby initially targeting the 2nd fractional of 2022 for its receipt. Under Part 135, Joby tin officially behaviour commercialized aerial taxi services — though it inactive needs 2 much certifications, alongside type certification and production certification, earlier its craft tin legally transportation passengers. Type certification means the craft meets each the FAA’s plan and information standards, portion accumulation certification is the support to statesman manufacturing the aircraft.
Honda is doubling down connected rockets, robots, and flying cars
Honda is expanding its probe and improvement spending successful 3 futuristic areas: rockets, robots, and electrical vertical takeoff and landing craft (eVTOL), different known arsenic flying cars.
The automaker volition walk $45 cardinal (5 trillion yen) connected R&D implicit the adjacent six years. But Honda won’t accidental what fraction of that magnitude volition beryllium spent connected processing rockets, robots, and flying cars, nor adjacent if it plans connected pursuing those projects arsenic commercialized businesses.
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