Items Tagged with 'electric aircraft'

To meet unprecedented demand, drone manufacturers are increasingly turning to additive manufacturing.

DAYTON, OH—Joby Aviation Inc., a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, has acquired an additional assembly plant here.

DAYTON, OH—Joby Aviation Inc. is expanding its manufacturing footprint here by acquiring a 700,000-square-foot facility.

DAYTON, OH—Joby Aviation Inc. has begun to manufacture air taxi propellor blades at its factory here.

BIRMINGHAM, England—GKN Aerospace recently completed the first high-voltage electrical wiring interconnection system for the European Union’s Clean Aviation SWITCH project. 

PARIS—Safran Electrical & Power and Saft have developed a high-voltage lithium-ion battery for use in next-generation electric aviation applications.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fuel cell that generates three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries.

MOUNTAN VIEW, CA—NASA is launching a five-year project with Wisk Aero LLC to develop traffic management systems for air taxis and other types of advanced air mobility applications.

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI—Regent Craft Inc. has conducted a successful test of its 12-passenger battery-powered Viceroy “seaglider” here.

The EV revolution reflects a growing desire within the auto industry to be more sustainable.