RE: Positives and more positives (ignore the dense con-men trolls)16 Sep 2021 10:41
Snippets from those links:
"The Air-One site in Coventry will showcase live demonstrations of remote aircraft command and control, charging/refuelling and cargo and passenger loading for manned and unmanned eVTOL aircraft operating in three key markets: passenger air taxi services, autonomous logistics and disaster emergency management."
"“We have already had, through our media launch, an audience of four billion people in the last few weeks. That’s phenomenal, the level of interest is massive, we have been covered on CNN and all over the world – even by The World Economic Forum."
The OEM it teamed up with was Hyundai, the world’s fifth-largest vehicle manufacturer, which is investing US$1.5 billion in the sector and, of course, developing its own eVTOL vehicles.
“We were excited to connect with Hyundai because their vision aligns with ours, which is that it’s not just about the vehicle, it’s about having the full ecosystem that will enable that vehicle to operate,” says Sandhu. “When we first met, we shared our decks and they were pretty much identical in terms of vision and terms of strategy, so it was a no-brainer to form this unique partnership."
Sandhu says: “We have been inundated with enquiries and our plan for 200 in the next five years is realistic. It’s almost conservative, because if you think about the city and the urban network, the Urban Air Port is like a tube stop or a train station. It of course depends on the city and it depends on the problems we are solving for that city, but certainly I can imagine hundreds for just one city.”
He puts the opportunity in an even greater context: “It’s important to remember that we have a scalable technology, and we can have small Urban Air Ports on rooftops, and we can have them bigger on the ground and we could even have Urban Air Ports that are floating. To build that network, you could easily imagine having 200 just around Greater London
"To support this future, Urban-Air Port today also announces a partnership with world leading Hydrogen Fuel Cell pioneer, AFC Energy PLC, to provide zero emission off-grid power for future sites. The system will be deployed at Urban-Air Port’s Air One site in Coventry"
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