eVTOL News
Latest eVTOL news and analysis — 23 articles tagged eVTOL on The Robotics Media.
- Joby Launches First eIPP Flights In Texas With Fort Worth To DFW Hop — — Joby Aviation has begun the FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program in Texas, flying its all-electric air taxi from Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airp...
- Archer Aviation Launches 'No Roads' Flight Tour Ahead Of LA28 And White House Pilot — — Archer Aviation kicked off its multi-state 'No Roads' Midnight flight tour on September 3, starting in Northern California ahead of the White House's...
- EHang EH216-S Completes First Public Pilotless Flight In Hong Kong Cyberport — — EHang's EH216-S became the first pilotless passenger eVTOL to fly publicly in Hong Kong, taking off from the Cyberport waterfront vertiport on August...
- Korean Air Partners With Archer Aviation On Militarized Midnight eVTOL For South Korea — — Korean Air has struck a partnership with Archer Aviation to adapt the Midnight eVTOL for the South Korean military, with the flag carrier handling air...
- Archer Buys Boeing's Wisk, SkyGrid And Insitu For A 20% Equity Stake — — Boeing sells Wisk Aero, SkyGrid and Insitu to Archer Aviation for a ~20% pre-close equity stake, consolidating the eVTOL sector.
- Eve Air Mobility Completes First Partial Transition eVTOL Flight — — Eve's engineering prototype fired up its rear pusher propeller in flight for the first time, hitting 30 knots ground speed and closing in on wing-born...
- Hitachi Energy and Eve Air Mobility Sign MoU on eVTOL Power Infrastructure — — Hitachi Energy and Eve Air Mobility sign a memorandum of understanding to co-develop the grid, substation and charging infrastructure needed to scale...
- Archer, BETA And Macquarie Launch ACES To Build 250 eVTOL Charging Sites By 2030 — — Archer Aviation, BETA Technologies and Macquarie Capital have formed ACES, America's Consortium for Electric Skyways, to build interoperable CCS charg...
- Loganair Orders Up To 10 BETA ALIA CX300 Electric Aircraft At Farnborough — — Loganair signed on day one of Farnborough 2026 to buy five all-electric BETA Technologies ALIA CX300 aircraft with options for five more, setting up t...
- Eve Air Mobility Signs LOI With Shearwater For Up To 16 eVTOL Aircraft — — Eve Air Mobility, the Embraer-backed advanced air mobility company, announced at the Farnborough International Airshow that aviation finance specialis...
- Vertical Aerospace To Fly First eVTOL Public Demos At Farnborough — — Vertical Aerospace will fly the Valo prototype in public demonstration flights throughout Farnborough International Airshow 2026, a first for the eVTO...
- Elroy Air to List on Nasdaq at $1B via SPAC to Scale Chaparral Cargo Drone — — Elroy Air will go public through a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II at roughly $1 billion enterprise value, adding $165M in PIPE to scale i...
- Shield AI Brings Runway-Free X-BAT Fighter Jet To Eurosatory 2026 — — Shield AI is unveiling its X-BAT AI-piloted VTOL fighter jet at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, pitching a 3,700 km range autonomous combat aircraft that ta...
- Joby Lands Mobile eVTOL Simulator At Dayton Air Show Ahead Of Ohio Production — — Joby Aviation parks its mobile flight simulator at the Dayton Air Show this weekend as part of its Electric Skies Tour, showcasing the S4 air taxi ahe...
- Federal Judge Dismisses Archer Fraud Counterclaim Against Joby In eVTOL Court Fight — — A U.S. federal judge tossed Archer Aviation's fraud counterclaims accusing Joby of hiding China ties, while also dismissing some of Joby's trade-secre...
- EnergyX And Wildcat Plan $230M LFP Cathode Plant For Texas Battery Mecca — — EnergyX and Wildcat Discovery Technologies have unveiled a $230 million joint venture to build a 15,000 tonne-per-year LFP cathode facility in Texas,...
- Vertical Aerospace Starts Hybrid-Electric Integration Tests, Builds First Valo Battery — — UK eVTOL maker Vertical Aerospace began integration tests for its next-generation hybrid-electric propulsion stack and produced the first all-electric...
- Joby and Archer Trade Lawsuits as U.S. eVTOL Race Turns Litigious — — Joby Aviation has sued Archer Aviation over alleged corporate espionage and Archer has hit back with counter-claims and a separate patent suit against...
- Ganfeng Starts Pilot of World's First 10 Ah Solid-State Battery at 500 Wh/kg — — China's Ganfeng Lithium has begun small-scale production of a 10 Ah solid-state battery rated at 500 Wh/kg, alongside a 400 Wh/kg cell that has crosse...
- BluJ Aerospace Unveils Gen #2 eVTOL Prototype on VANTIS Platform — — Hyderabad-based BluJ Aerospace has unveiled its Gen #2 eVTOL prototype, a fully battery-powered lift-plus-cruise aircraft built on the company's VANTI...