Jan 18, 2025 · The world's first and foremost resource on all-electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft!

The Electric VTOL News™ highlights the incredible promise and progress of battery-electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen-electric powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Oct 20, 2021 · Chinese companies are no strangers to the eVTOL sector. Guangzhou-based EHang unveiled its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) EH184 in January 2016 and began making passenger flights soon after (see “ How EHang Built an eVTOL for the World,” Vertiflite, July/Aug 2020).

Dec 24, 2023 · As 2023 was coming to a close, the leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developers appeared to accelerate their efforts to bring their ambitious plans to fruition. Events such as the Dubai Airshow in November saw some eVTOL developers turn their attention to establishing relationships in the Middle East and beyond.

Mar 2, 2023 · The first 10 years of eVTOL development have seen tremendous progress in development of aircraft configurations, eVTOL technologies, standards, regulations, partnerships and commercialization.

Oct 31, 2024 · Founded in 2021, Shanghai-based Volant Aerotech raised ¥100M (around US$14.2M) in its sixth funding round in June. The funds will support testing of its full-scale VE25 X1 passenger eVTOL demonstrator, the development of the AC101 aircraft and expansion into the commercial passenger transport market.

Apr 23, 2024 · Beta Technologies completed the first manned, full transition flight of its Alia A250 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at its flight test facility at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York.

Mar 29, 2023 · In the past months, several of the leading electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft companies have made announcements that could be critical to their success in the future.

The first crewed flight of the Joby S4 2.0b (tail number N542BJ) eVTOL passenger aircraft in New York City took place on Sunday, November 12, 2023. The exhibition flight took off from the downtown heliport in Manhattan marking the first ever eVTOL flight in the city and the first time that Joby Aviation has flown their aircraft in an urban city.

Oct 27, 2023 · The FAA’s decision in May 2022 to use divergent certification pathways for eVTOL and eCTOL aircraft (see “ FAA Changes Course on eVTOL Certification,” Vertiflite, July/Aug …