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Joby Aviation acquires Uber Elevate and $75M investment
Joby Aviation, the eVTOL and air taxi manufacturer headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, is receiving a $75 million investment from Uber Technologies. This is on top of a previously undisclosed $50 million investment from a funding round in January of this year.
Read moreBye Aerospace will equip eFlyer aircraft with Safran ENGINeUS™ motors
Bye Aerospace, the Denver-based electric aircraft designer, signed an agreemend with Safran, French aircraft engine manufacturer, to equip the upcoming eFlyer line of aircraft with the ENGINeUS™ electric smart motors.
Read moreWisk and NASA will work together on autonomous advanced air mobility
Wisk, the eVTOL manufacturer from Mountain View, CA, and NASA are teaming up to focus on the safe integration of autonomous aircraft systems into an Urban Air Mobility environment on a national level.
Read moreCanadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium aims to implement eVTOL aircraft in Canada
Canadian Air Mobility and the National Research Council of Canada have founded the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium to accelerate the implementation of electic and hydrogen powered vertical take-off and landing aircraft in Canada. The goal of the organization is to streamline advanced air mobility research, and to bring Canadian and international regulators, manufacturers, operators and other stakeholders together in an innovation hub to benefit development and commercial operations. Among its objectives are to help small and medium-sized enterprises grow their technology from a low technology readiness level to certification and commercialization. Currently, the consortium has more than 20 partners,…
Read moreLilium will establish first urban electric air mobility network in Orlando by 2025
Lilium, the German eVTOL manufacturer, is partnering with development company Tavistock and the City of Orlando to build the first hub for a high-speed electric air mobility network in the United States by 2025.
Read moreBye Aerospace signs agreement with Aerospace9 for investment and 300 unit order
Bye Aerospace, the electric aircraft manufacturer in Denver, Colorado, signed a key agreement with Aerospace9, a Korean information technology firm active in the aviation industry.
Read moreENAIRE plans to promote urban air mobility with demonstration flights in 2022
ENAIRE, the national air navigation manager of Spain, is working on two urban air mobility projects using funds provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project. The first one, called CORUS-XUAM, is led by Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation, and aims to make cross-border operations of unmanned traffic flying in very-low-level (VLL) airspace easier. The second, AMU-LED, is led by consulting firm Everis. As part of the efforts to accelerate the urban air mobility industry and to foster public interest and acceptance, ENAIRE is planning to have air taxi demonstration flights in Barcelona and Santiago…
Read moreMerck starts delivering medicine using Volansi drones
Merck, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, has signed an agreement with Volansi, VTOL manufacturer, to start using drones to deliver routine medicines to a Vidant health clinic.
Read moreElectra.aero and Aerion team up to define mobility of the future
Electra.aero, a new startup working on the design of electric short takeoff and landing aircraft, is teaming up with supersonic aircraft manufacturer Aerion to develop global mobility solutions of the future.
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