eVTOL

This totally unique eVTOL design promises range, cargo and efficiency advantages unmatched by anything else on the market, using a dihedral folding wing design that gives it a tiny ground footprint in VTOL mode, and a huge wingspan in the air.

Joby has flown a new record distance for a full-sized eVTOL aircraft on a single battery charge, covering 154.6 miles in a single 77-minute flight, complete with energy-gobbling vertical takeoff and landing phases.

As it aggressively pursues a future where flying taxis carry people and cargo between busy urban centers, German aviation startup Volocopter has ticked off an important milestone, making a public demo flight in the USA with a pilot on board.

Joby Aviation has released new video showing a "complete flight profile" of its eVTOL air taxi, and also announced its plans to create (and profit from) a new carbon credit trading system similar to the one that's kept Tesla profitable for some time.

Electric VTOLs are shaping up as something you'll use as a service, rather than something you'd buy and keep in your garage for personal use. But Next UAS wants to re-open the conversation on personal ownership, with this single-seat iFly concept.

The US Military has decided American dominance in the eVTOL market is a matter of national security, and has now accredited four eVTOL aircraft with military airworthiness to accelerate development. The latest is Kitty Kawk's Heaviside.

There's a billion-dollar elephant in the room; any startup that wants to bring an eVTOL air taxi into commercial service needs to structure its entire operation to meet the same aerospace standards Boeing does. Does anyone have the money?

Rotor X plans to break into the air taxi market with an aircraft that's "dramatically more efficient and less expensive than all other eVTOL concepts being proposed or developed today" – and it's also one of the few eVTOLs capable of autorotation.

Kelekona's colossal mass-transit eVTOL is one of the most unique and wildly ambitious proposals we've seen in this space, flying heavier and further than anyone else on its monster 2.3 MWh battery. We caught up with the founder for a fascinating chat.

Matt Pearson's Alauda Aeronautics has released footage of engineers remotely piloting its full-size Airspeeder Mk3 multirotor electric "flying car" ahead of international teams taking the controls for the first EXA racing series later in the year.

UK company Vertical Aerospace is going public through a SPAC, with backing from Microsoft, American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce and a bulging US$4 billion-dollar preorder book for as many as 1,000 of its VA-X4 eVTOL air taxis.

The Trifan 600 will fly up to eight passengers helipad to helipad at ranges up to 750 miles and speeds up to 345 mph – figures nothing in the eVTOL world can touch thanks to its hybrid powertrain. XTI and Xeriant have partnered to get it into production.