Hyundai & Uber Elevate Unveil Autonomous Pods, eVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem At CES

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:39:14 +0000

Hyundai S-A1 eVTOL Unveil CES 2020. Photo: Nicolas ZartHyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle, autonomous pods, and a hub ecosystem that fits with Uber Elevate’s air taxi model at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

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Uber Air & NASA Launch Airspace Simulation To Enable eVTOL Future

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:02:27 +0000

Computer network connection modern city future technology, https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-and-uber-test-system-for-future-urban-air-transportNASA & Uber Air share, by all appearances in this simulation, a tidy answer to a widespread urban issue: electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft

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The NBAA Pushes Electric Air Mobility In The Las Vegas Limelight

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:39:24 +0000

NBAA-BACE 2019 UAM Jaunt Air Mobility Display. Photo: Nicolas ZartThe National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) outdid itself this year. Electric urban air mobility (UAM) was present with new players Jaunt Air Mobility, the fascinating XTI Aircraft, Uber Elevate, Bell, Boeing, and Airbus. What was so special about it this year? It wasn’t the timid show of electric UAM shows of the past. Can you say, “They’re here…?”

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Embraer Goes From Airplanes To Business Jets To Electric Planes & VTOL Aircraft

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 01:00:06 +0000

Embraer Electric DemonstratorThe Embraer fixed-wing, single-engine electric demonstrator aircraft might not look like your vision of our urban air mobility (UAM) future, but its electric conventional takeoff & landing (eCTOL) design makes it a perfect testbed. Let’s look at what Embraer is testing with the single-wing e

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Embraer, Bell, Brazil, & Uber Elevate Are Shaping Our Urban Air Mobility Future

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 01:52:00 +0000

Embraer EmbraerX eVTOLA flurry of aviation startups have challenged our current air mobility system and are introducing urban air mobility (UAM) to more people. Embraer, Bell, Brazil, & Uber Elevate are a few innovating in this fast-paced new industry

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Bye Aerospace & OXIS Energy To Commercialize Lithium-Sulfur Batteries For Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:40:13 +0000

Bye Aerospace is an extremely busy electric aviation company developing the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) world. It has two electric airplanes (eCTOL) and is working on an electric vertical take-off & landing (eVTOL) project with Uber Elevate. But that’s not all. It is also partnering with another two companies focusing on pre‐crash sensing technologies, parachute ballistic recovery systems, landing gear‐airframe crashworthy structural concepts, high-energy absorbing seats, and advanced restraints

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