Bevirt: eVTOL aircraft can compress two-hour commutes to ten minutes
“It's you know, being able to take a trip that, that, you know, takes you half an hour on the ground and turn into a five or 10 minute trip, you know, and sometimes, sometimes you're replacing a two hour trip because you've got traffic.”
Bevirt: Struggling US Aerospace Competitors Are "Lashing Out" Instead of Innovating
“There are some companies in this country that are doing incredible engineering and that are actually moving the ball forward. There are others who maybe are struggling and so maybe I'll leave it at that.”
Bevirt: Joby Aviation's electric aircraft fly at 200 miles per hour
“It's 200 miles an hour.”
Bevirt: Noise is the primary community concern for eVTOLs after safety
“Priority two through nine in people's priority stack is about noise and making an acoustic signature that's gonna get communities to see this as a real advantage and something that's increases the value of living in that community because you're close to this …”
Bevirt: eVTOL technology has off-the-charts bipartisan support in Washington
“The amount of bipartisan support on, on both sides of the aisle in Washington is off the charts.”
Joby is certifying its eVTOL aircraft with 300 Wh/kg battery cells
“The batteries that we're certifying our aircraft with are have a specific energy of about 300 watt hours per kilogram.”
Bevirt: eVTOL battery specific energy almost doubled in 15 years
“When I started the company in, in 2009, we had cells that had sufficient specific power to do a vertical takeoff, but also we're at about a 170 watt hours a kilogram. So we've almost doubled the specific energy in the cells over the last 15 years.”
Bevirt: Joby will launch commercial service in UAE in 2025
“So I think we're on a timeline which we publicly announced to begin commercial service. In the UAE next year.”