Airbus will be pausing the development of the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL program due to concerns about the lack of maturity of ...

Airbus Helicopters is hitting the breaks on program progress, citing that battery technologies need to evolve before it can launch a successful UAM program.

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Airbus rolled out its CityAirbus NextGen prototype in March 2024. Credit: Airbus Airbus’s decision to wind down its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) program surprised the industry ...

The German air taxi startups Lilium and Volocopter both had to file for insolvency and are now trying to reorganise themselves. Now the major aviation group ...

The decision to suspend the hydrogen project, dubbed ZEROe, comes a week after Airbus Helicopters scrapped plans to build an urban mobility vehicle called CityAirbus NextGen due to uncertainty ...

Airbus Helicopters has led work on the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL program, but the company is now suspending efforts to bring the four-passenger model to market.

Airbus’ four-seater eVTOL demonstrator, CityAirbus, will take its first test flight this year and debut commercially in 2023, while the five-seater Lilium Jet is set for commercial launch in 2025.

Airbus Helicopters will pause activities on the CityAirbus NextGen electric air taxi once its flight-test campaign is complete, believing key technologies are not ready to support the launch of a ...

Composite materials are being successfully adopted for certification and low initial rate production (LRIP) in eVTOL aircraft variants today ... R&T engineer at Ensia (the Spanish entity of Testia, an ...

The Airbus has developed a new concept of an electric “air taxi” called CityAirbus NextGen, which promises to offer fast and ...