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“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side and for defense applications.”

“He's now able to build in an afternoon What would have previously taken him weeks or months? he's like, I'm 10 X per 10 X as productive as I was just a few months ago.”

“These are the folks that have a book of a dozen new aircraft designs that not just are like, 10% better than aircraft that we have today, but, you know, five and 10 times better.”

“I think that over time hydrogen propulsion will redefine every class of aircraft that's flown today, both on you know, on the commercial side, and for defense applications.”

“A few weeks ago, I was in China, and I saw firsthand how fast they're moving... They are, in China, I saw production facilities that are scaling for thousands of aircraft per year.”

“The regulatory pathway there is more forward-leaning, I think, as Adam pointed out. And I think you're gonna see more, more rapid iteration, iteration.”

“This is a moment we've been working for more than a decade to get to the point where we have designs where we've agreed with the FAA on every detail of the design.”

“He's now able to build in an afternoon what would have previously taken him weeks or months.”

“So air travel today is our lowest cost, highest speed, and safest mode of transport. So it's hundreds of times safer or even thousands of times safer than driving. It is you know, more than 10 times faster, and it's on the order of an order of magnitude less e…”

“So at that point in time, we were 40 to 50 watt hours a kilogram. Now we're more than 300 watt hours a kilogram, and there's cells in the lab that are up to 500 watt hours a kilogram, and prototypes coming that are over a thousand watt hours.”

“So we were the first company to achieve stage Complete the stage one of the certification basis. The first complete stage two, first complete stage three, and now not only Joby, but the FAA is making record progress on stage four.”

“You see countries like China, where the CAC, which is the Chinese equivalent of the FAA, is very forward-leaning, and they're already have companies in this sector that are certified, and then you have the Chinese government, which is buying hundreds of these …”

“We want to be below 45 decibels in over flight. And we've achieved both of those goals.”

“So I think we're on a timeline which we publicly announced to begin commercial service. In the UAE next year.”

“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.”

“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”

“Three times lighter the hydrogen is three times lighter than jet fuel. And then we can convert it into propulsion twice as efficiently. So you get a six X gain.”

“Instead of a helicopter with, ah, hundreds of single points of failure on the rotor and the tail rotor.”

“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.”

“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…”

“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”

“More than 90% of the components on the aircraft are designed and manufactured in house.”

“And then and then last summer we demonstrated a 500 mile flight with the hydrogen electric aircraft.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“There's now dozens of companies that are building aircraft that look almost identical to ours.”

“Yeah, it's about a hundred times quieter than a helicopter and that's in hover.”

“The amount of bipartisan support on, on both sides of the aisle in Washington is off the charts.”

“A pilot can, over time, begin to operate multiple aircraft at the same time.”

“And so there's only going to be select routes where this is a game changer because of the multimodal nature.”

“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…”

“More than 90% of the components on the aircraft. Are designed and manufactured in house.”

“So we open sourced our charging standard. And so anybody can build a charger.”

“It's three times the specific energy of jet fuel. And with fuel cells, we can convert that into propulsion twice as efficiently.”

“In fact, we, we've got two aircraft down at Edwards Air Force Base, and with those aircraft, we've been able to demonstrate the incredible robustness, and we've intentionally shut off lots of different systems on the aircraft, and demonstrated in flight that p…”

“It's 200 miles an hour.”

“Hydrogen is a hundred times higher specific energy than today's batteries is three times higher specific energy than jet fuel.”

“Today we have capacity to build about one a month and we're ramping that as quick as possible.”

“We've got a record number of aircraft flying you know, now more than five aircraft. We have flying thousands of flights.”

“We have the partnership where, where there are demand funnel and where You know, when you pull up the Uber app and you say you want to go to, you know, you're in New York, you want to go to JFK, that it'll seamlessly stitch a, an Uber trip to the VertiPort and…”

“We acquired the Uber Elevate team from Uber, and that is the foundation of all the servers and the algorithms that run on the back end based on Uber's best in class architecture, and then also the app.”

“We started working with the DOD back in 2016 with DIU and that laid this incredible foundation for us with the DOD and it was you know, that, that expanded with the work with AFWERX.”

“We acquired a team called X-wing, which is one of the leaders in aircraft autonomy, and they're doing fantastic work on autonomous logistics and other autonomy applications for the duty and rebel aircraft, apparently.”

“When we flew the full scale in, in 2017 and we were able to show both to ourselves and everyone else that we were, that we could build an aircraft with That was incredibly quiet, that had redundancy, that had unprecedented performance.”

“The batteries that we're certifying our aircraft with are have a specific energy of about 300 watt hours per kilogram.”

“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.”

“We employ more than 2000 people.”