Bringing
#urbanairmobility
straight to your home &
@Xbox
! The Game of the Year edition of
@MSFSofficial
is out & ready for take-off. Here’s your behind the scenes look at how we brought this to life:
Big Apple news! Volocopter's crewed 2X aircraft completed its first flight in front of the majestic NYC skyline. No better place to show the safe, quiet, and sustainable
#UrbanAirMobility
we’ll bring to megacities worldwide. Find out more:
Volocopter is pursuing concurrent type certification of
#VoloCity
aircraft with
#Japan
aviation authority JCAB &
@EASA
, and brings strategic partner and investor
#Sumitomo
on board for market launch in Osaka in 2025.
All eyes (& phones 😉) were on the Volocopter 2X aircraft during our test flights in Pontoise, France.
#Throwback
to fall 2022. How many screens can you spot?
#Volocopter
#UrbanAirMobility
Volocopter performed multiple successful flight tests with their
#eVTOL
aircraft. One flight path was a potential panoramic route that will be available to the public in the future. Find out more about the event here:
We just announced that we signed the first closing of our Series C. The €50 million round is led by
@GeelyHolding
& whom we've also agreed to enter a joint venture with to continue bringing Urban Air Mobility to life!
More:
#eVTOL
#airtaxi
#volocopter
A couple of Volocopters per city? How about hundreds of them transporting thousands of people an hour? This is what we imagine the infrastructure of air taxis to look like:
#FlightTesting
continues: We’re working on opening the flight envelope for our commercial VoloCity aircraft. Join us in our car as we push the max. speed limit in a remotely piloted configuration.
#Volocopter
#AirTaxi
#BTS
#UAM
Japan fans, good news! Volocopter is working with
@nttcom
and
#TokyoCentury
to bring zero-emission electric air taxis to
#Tokyo
via the city’s eSG project. A Tokyo-funded grant will enable feasibility studies on routes, infrastructure, and digitalization.
Volocopter and Japan’s largest research and development organization, NEDO, successfully completed an
#eVTOL
flight test in Osaka, to test both ground and air procedures. These were done ahead of Volocopter’s Japanese launch during the Osaka EXPO 2025.
#UrbanAirMobility
Team Volocopter welcomes
@HokeDirk
as its new
#CEO
. He will lead the team through certification and toward market launch. Dirk’s experience in aviation, transportation, and digitization will accelerate the entry of our
#airtaxi
services in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Latest news from
@AUTONOMY
in Paris:
We will be performing inner urban flight tests in Singapore, starting in the second half of 2019.
Find all the information on this exciting and important step right here:
#Volocopter
#firsttofly
#Autonomy2018
#airtaxi
Happy to announce that our outwash and downwash flight tests were successfully conducted, and we have become the first European company to kick-start this in the U.S. during our stay in Florida.
Find out more:
We’re one year out from launching a new form of urban mobility, offering all-electric
#VoloCity
air taxi services in Europe, followed by other megacities worldwide.
Volocopter has completed construction on its
#VoloCity
production facility & will start manufacturing
#AirTaxis
in Bruchsal starting April, for commercial launch in 2024. A newly built hangar will host final assembly and flight testing.
Volocopter and
@DLR_de
conducted Ground Vibration Tests with the VoloCity aircraft. These tests are conducted to ensure the safety and longevity of the aircraft. Hear more from the experts by checking out the video below:
Volocopter is looking at the
#US
#market
for further expansion! We’re also happy to announce that the
@FAANews
positively received our application for concurrent
#TC
validation. Read the full
#pressrelease
here:
Reservations for
#VoloCity
tickets are
#SOLDOUT
! Yes, you read that right.
#Volocopter
sold its first 1000 reservations for air taxi tickets in less than 4 weeks. Thanks
@nico_rosberg
for being the first to reserve a ticket and thank you all future flyers. We'll see you on board!
2,000 test flights and counting! We couldn’t be more proud!
#Volocopter
is on track to receive type certification from
@EASA
, and to launch
#VoloCity
air taxi services in Paris in 2024.
#ADACLuftrettung
has reserved two of our
#VoloCity
multicopters! They will use them for the first operational testing of
#eVTOLs
as transport for emergency medical doctors worldwide. Sales have kicked off. Read all about it here:
Innovation requires trust in visionaries. In the 70s, despite public skepticism,
@ADAC
Luftrettung’s Christoph 1 became the world’s 1st permanent air rescue service helicopter. The next step is electric air rescue services with VoloCity multicopters:
German Minister of Digital and Transport Dr. Volker
@Wissing
visited our HQ in
#Bruchsal
. Another clear sign of his strong support as we move closer to achieving our goal of bring urban air mobility to life.
#Volocopter
#UrbanAirMobility
@bmdv
Q: What’s black, white, and going to the
#USA
?🇺🇸
A: A
#Volocopter
, and we’ll be at
@eaa
’s
#OSH2021
!
Visit us at booth 226 from 26 July through 1 August.
(Re-)presenting the
#VoloRegion
: A name is a distinguishing feature, a marker of what is, and of what is to come. So, why have we renamed our third aircraft?
Find out all the details right here 👉
#Volocopter
#UAM
#VoloRegion
Been waiting to experience a Volocopter flight? Mark your calendar for September 14: Weather permitting, we will fly as part of the "Vision Smart City - Mobilität der Zukunft heute erleben" at the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
#Sep14
#Volocopter
#SmartCity
#firsttofly
From successful worldwide test flights to the exploration of more use cases for the
#eVTOL
industry, Volocopter is preparing to make their biggest leap yet by launching the first electric
#UrbanAirMobility
service in Europe.
One step closer to becoming a certified Aircraft Operator (AOC). We received the aircraft on which we will optimize all airline processes for commercial flights with our
#VoloCity
electric
#airtaxis
next summer in Paris. Find out more here:
Volocopter’s electric
#VoloCity
aircraft has achieved the ARP4754A standard conducted by
@EASA
. This marks a significant step forward for both Volocopter’s type certification and the whole
#eVTOL
industry seeking EASA certification.
We recently spent a whole week conducting successful test
#flights
at
#Pontoise
#airfield
, near
#Paris
. Why? Well, because we're eyeing up the city of lights as our first launch city. Stay tuned for the 2024
#ParisOlympics
! But for now, check out our 2X in action:
Volocopter has partnered with
@SITAonline
on IT systems for vertiports, complementing
#Volocopter
's own digital infrastructure, the
#VoloIQ
, to launch in 2024. SITA has also joined the current Series E financing round. More here:
“It's my passion to enable new
#technology
in
#aviation
, & with the
#VoloCity
we will pioneer a new era of flying – electrically, vertically & in mega cities. It's exhilarating to be part of this endeavor!”
Meet Dr. Arnaud Coville, Head of Development, for our VoloCity.
Thank you to the NBAA-BACE for hosting our visit to Las Vegas. It was an insightful weekend where we were lucky to meet other visionaries of the U.S. aviation industry. For Nevada, we bet this won’t be our last visit, but for now next stop: Tampa, Florida!
Our
#VoloCity
air taxi is on the verge of obtaining
@EASA
type certification, with just a couple of steps left to go.
Click on the link to find out more about how we meet the aviation industry’s highest safety standards:
Volocopter completed more than 600 successful test flights and counting. Yesterday’s resulted in a broken landing gear, which is exactly where it is designed to break. It won’t be the last.
Our white paper “Pioneering the Urban Air Taxi Revolution” gives a deeper dive into our technology and is a good place to start understanding the motivation behind further developing ourVolocopter.
#evtol
#mobility
#startups
#innovation
#future
#airtaxi
What is required to offer air taxi services at an airport?
We are cooperating with
@Airport_FRA
to find out exactly this by developing concepts for the necessary ground infrastructure and operations. Find the full information right here:
#Volocopter