Chinese companies are rapidly advancing in the “low-altitude” sector (see “China's Low-Altitude Economy and eVTOL Diplomacy,” Vertiflite, Sept/Oct 2024), signaling a transformative era in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). As major players like AutoFlight, EHang and XPeng AeroHT innovate...

SkyDrive, the Japanese eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) company, will become the first to provide electric air taxi flights across Osaka in collaboration with Osaka Metro. Back in August, Osaka Metro and SkyDrive announced that they were working on...

The Alia electric aircraft built in Vermont is turning out to have huge success in New Zealand. First, the country's flagship air carrier committed to adding Alia as the first electric aircraft in its fleet, and now the New...

There’s a lot of noise coming from a nascent transportation industry that tries to change our world by means of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. That’s because there are plenty of startups already in this business, each...

It looks incredible and it's ready to support incredible things: the brand-new vertiport built at EHang's Luohu UAM Center in China is probably one of the most advanced and futuristic ones worldwide. The first month of 2025 marked one of...