eVTOL

For a drone company that just broke cover in May, SiFly has certainly gone from strength to strength in 2025. Its latest achievement came on Orville Wright's birthday, when the company's Q12 drone soared into the most famous record book in the world.

Although we keep hearing about eVTOLs, barriers such as high prices and regulatory approval may limit their widespread use. That shouldn't be a problem for the AirKart, as it could be rented and flown by anyone at dedicated closed-course race tracks.

Air-mobility startup FlyNow Aviation has removed the tethers from its stacked dual-rotor electric helicopter pod thing, and recorded the eCopter's first free flight at a test facility in Eastern Austria.

Vertical Aerospace has notched a world's first for its VX-4 eVTOL hybrid-electric air taxi prototype, completing the first flight between two airports through public airspace for an aircraft of its type during the Royal International Air Tattoo.

EDAG Group has a long history of creating some of the wildest vehicle concepts out there, including a pop-up sports car camper. Now it's jumping into the next generation of mobility, building the structure for the production AIR One short-hop eVTOL.

Archer has released video footage of the first flight of its Midnight eVTOL with a pilot at the controls, though the aircraft rolled down a runway to take off rather than using its rotors to lift it vertically.

Horizon’s Cavorite X7 just made aviation history by pulling off the world's first stable fan-in-wing transition flight. The hybrid eVTOL can take off like a helicopter, cruise like a plane, and recharge its batteries mid-flight for quick turnarounds.

A jet-powered "speeder bike" flying through the forest on May the 4th? We speculate on the Volonaut Airbike, question the wild claims, and crunch the numbers to see if it's legit – or just really cool VFX. Spoiler alert: we want it to be real.

AltoVolo is aiming high with its foray into eVTOLs. It plans to offer a personal hybrid-electric aircraft that will deliver 510 miles of range, and hit cruise speeds up of to 220 mph – while making 80% less noise than a helicopter.

Joby Aviation achieved a major milestone on April 22, 2025 when it became the first company to fly an all-electric tilt-rotor eVTOL with a pilot aboard as it transitioned from horizontal to vertical flight and back again.

Archer has its sights set on making air taxis a thing really soon. It's just revealed plans for a network of vertiports from which its electric aircraft can take off and land in NYC – so you can beat street traffic and get around town in minutes.

One of the most fascinating aircraft in the eVTOL space has moved into flight testing with a new large-scale prototype. Cyclotech's Blackbird airframe becomes the world's first aircraft to fly with six barrel-shaped "Cyclorotors" for propulsion.