Air taxis and personal transports

ANA Holdings and Joby Aviation selected to operate electric air taxi flights at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan

ANA Holdings (ANAHD) an aviation company and Joby Aviation have been selected by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition to operate demonstration flights during the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The two companies […]

Fixed wing low/zero emissions

ZeroAvia and Birmingham (UK) airport partner to build hydrogen aviation hub in the UK

Hydrogen-powered aircraft developer ZeroAvia has signed a long term partnership with the UK’s Birmingham Airport (BHX). According to a company press release: “The companies have entered into a long-term partnership to make on-airfield hydrogen refuelling […]

Air taxis and personal transports

South Korean start-up launches VTOL service concept which adapts from carbon fuel to electricity

South Korean start-up MOVIATION has launched a pioneering helicopter air taxi concept, VONAER, initially powered by conventional fossil fuel engines but with the capability of a swift adaption to electric engines when they become available. […]

Air taxis and personal transports

HCA Airport and Copenhagen Helicopter form partnership to establish vertiport site for flying taxis

A new partnership between HCA Airport in Odense and Copenhagen Helicopter will be the “first in Denmark to build an infrastructure for electrically-powered flying taxis – also called eVTOL, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft […]

Research

New EUR 40 million European HECATE programme will research electric distribution systems

To support hybrid-electric propulsion systems, new high-voltage distribution technologies will be required as electric power levels increase from hundreds of kilowatts in today’s aircraft, to megawatt levels in the aircraft of the future. The HECATE […]