JoeBen Bevirt
Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation. On 2 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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JoeBen Bevirt is the founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, an aerospace company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. He previously co-founded laboratory robotics company Velocity11 and founded Joby Inc., which created the GorillaPod camera tripod.
2shows
4appearances
64statements
32resolved
24supported
1contradicted
75%fully supported
Everything JoeBen Bevirt said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bevirt: Texas eVTOL landings only require landowner permission
“One of the incredible things, like, as I talked about with Texas it's, it, Texas is one of the places that's super flexible. All you need is the permission of the landowner.”
Bevirt: Joby aircraft fly-by-wire lets first-time simulator pilots fly flawlessly
“One of the really cool things about our aircraft is because of fly bar, you can take your hands off the controls and the aircraft maintains
maintains the attitude. You can get into the simulator and you can fly the aircraft flawlessly the first flight. Hundr…”
Bevirt: Joby Flew Hydrogen-Electric VTOL Aircraft Over 500 Miles
“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”
Bevirt: Over 90% of Joby Aircraft Components Are Made In-House
“More than 90% of the components on the aircraft are designed and manufactured in house.”
Bevirt: eVTOL industry is currently at pre-Model T hand-building stage
“I think about where we are today as being akin to where automotive was in the Before, when we were still hand building them. And the question is going to be how quickly can we move from there to where Ford was when they introduced the Model T.”
Bevirt: Doubling battery density roughly triples eVTOL flight range
“Well, it's even more than that because you hold a lot of the energy and reserve for contingencies. You don't need to increase the amount of reserve that you hold. And so if you double the energy in the battery, you're actually probably getting three times the …”
Bevirt: Joby Aviation demonstrated a 500-mile hydrogen-electric flight in summer 2024
“And then and then last summer we demonstrated a 500 mile flight with the hydrogen electric aircraft.”
Bevirt: The Hindenburg's hydrogen did not explode; its fabric envelope burned
“Well, so the interesting thing about the Hindenburg, it was actually the envelope. It was the fabric that covered it, that burned. And the hydrogen is so light that it convex incredibly rapidly. So it's actually not, it didn't actually explode the hydrogen. No…”
Bevirt: Joby shipped its first aircraft to Dubai for hot-weather testing
“So we've shipped the first aircraft off to Dubai. We're going to have it there doing hot weather testing this summer.”
Bevirt: Vertiport networks scale exponentially unlike linear ground transportation infrastructure
“The thing that's exciting about these kinds of aircraft is compared to ground-based transportation, whether that's rail or cars on the road, those are linear. And so if you want to you know, get more capacity, you need more lanes with this, you can go, you bui…”
Bevirt: The federal administration is expanding air traffic control for eVTOLs
“Yeah, it's, we fit into the airspace just like every other aircraft does, but it's phenomenal that this administration is, is leaning in and really driving forward on revitalizing the air traffic control and expanding the capacity of our air traffic control sy…”
Bevirt: Joby finished reworking certification steps after 2022 FAA rule changes
“We had our path agreed to with the FA and that made it so that we needed to go back and relook at a number of pieces. And the good news is that all of that work is behind us.”
Bevirt: Joby would have finished certification faster without FAA framework shifts
“We would have gotten to the finish line a lot faster if that curve ball hadn't come along.”
Bevirt: Dozens of companies are building aircraft almost identical to Joby's
“There's now dozens of companies that are building aircraft that look almost identical to ours.”
Bevirt: Joby aircraft hover about 100 times quieter than conventional helicopters
“Yeah, it's about a hundred times quieter than a helicopter and that's in hover.”
Bevirt: Joby Aviation vertically integrates flight computers, motors, and batteries
“So we we've chosen as a company to be incredibly vertically integrated. So we want to make the best flight computers. We want to make the best air data computers. We want to make the best motors. We want to make the best battery packs. We want to make the best…”
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.”
Bevirt: Remote pilots will eventually manage multiple autonomous eVTOLs at once
“A pilot can, over time, begin to operate multiple aircraft at the same time.”
Bevirt: eVTOLs will initially be game changers on select routes
“And so there's only going to be select routes where this is a game changer because of the multimodal nature.”
Upcoming FAA rules will accelerate small personal aircraft development
“I think the good news here in the US is that the FAA is in the process of releasing something called Mosaic. Which for aircraft that are smaller than ours aircraft with, like, two passengers in them, more of a personal ownership type of thing, that's gonna all…”
Bevirt: Over 90% of Joby aircraft components are made in-house
“More than 90% of the components on the aircraft. Are designed and manufactured in house.”
Bevirt: Joby Aviation open-sourced its charging standard
“So we open sourced our charging standard. And so anybody can build a charger.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens JoeBen's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation | 3 | 54 | 79% 22/28 | full record on American Optimist → |
 ALL-INLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Joby Aviation | 1 | 10 | 50% 2/4 | full record on All-In → |