Roland Berger and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have produced a new report which analyses potential unit cost economics for specific eVTOL use cases (city-taxi, airport-shuttle, inter-city), writes Roland Berger’s Dr Stephan Baur in a Linkedin post. The report is being highlighted at the upcoming Revolution.Aero conference in San Francisco.
Some of the key conclusions of the report are that airport-shuttle and inter-city transport are the use cases which will reach first unit cost comparable to existing modes of transportation; the cost driver for cost-per-passenger mile are landing fees as well as maintenance costs (in particular replacement of batteries); and by working together along the ecosystem and all stakeholders the industry will be able to deliver competitive cost per passenger mile.
According to some of the metrics in the report, in an airport shuttle service, maintenance will account for 37% of the costs, vertiport cost 20%, aircraft cost 26% and flying costs 18%.
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