Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bevirt: Hydrogen will redefine every class of commercial and military aircraft
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bevirt: Joby's chief aerodynamicist is 10x faster using AI
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bevirt: Joby's research team designed aircraft 10x better than current planes
“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.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bevirt: Hydrogen Will Over Time Redefine Every Class of Aircraft
“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.”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Chinese aerospace facilities are scaling for thousands of aircraft yearly
“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.”
Opinion
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.”
Assertion Partly supported
Bevirt: Joby and FAA agreed on every detail of aircraft design
“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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bevirt: AI Lets Joby Aerodynamicists Compress Months of Work Into Afternoons
“He's now able to build in an afternoon what would have previously taken him weeks or months.”
Insight
Bevirt: In the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link
“I think in the age of AI, the physical world is the slowest link.”
Assertion Partly supported
Bevirt: Air Travel Costs an Order of Magnitude Less Than Driving
“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…”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Battery density reached 300 Wh/kg with 1,000 Wh/kg prototypes coming
“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.”
Disclosure
Bevirt: Joby targets launch pricing comparable to an Uber Black ride
“So as we launched the service, we want this to be comparable in place to taking an Uber black. And then as we drive that manufacturing scale and get to Hundreds and then thousands and then tens of thousands of aircraft per year and really, you know, leveraging…”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Joby was the first company to complete FAA certification stages 1-3
“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.”
Disclosure
Bevirt: Joby secured an initial $1B tranche for Saudi Arabian commercialization
“LJ is really our dream partner as we look to explore the opportunities in, in Saudi, and couldn't be more pleased with this initial tranche of a billion dollars for the commercialization in in Saudi.”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: China certified eVTOL aircraft and ordered hundreds for its economy
“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 …”
Assertion Supported
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.”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Joby flew a hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft over 500 miles
“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Hydrogen fuel cells yield a 6x efficiency gain over jet fuel
“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.”
Disclosure
Joby Invests to Ramp Production to Two to Four Aircraft Monthly
“We've made capital investments to ramp from one to two aircraft a month, and now two to four aircraft a month.”
Assertion Partly supported
Bevirt: Helicopters Have Hundreds of Single Points of Failure
“Instead of a helicopter with, ah, hundreds of single points of failure on the rotor and the tail rotor.”
Insight
Bevirt: Scaling air taxis to thousands in a city requires autonomy
“As you want to scale from hundreds in a community to thousands and then tens of thousands, you really want to do that with autonomy.”
Assertion Supported
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.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Assertion Supported
Bevirt: Joby Flew Hydrogen-Electric VTOL Aircraft Over 500 Miles
“We flew a hydrogen electric version of our VTOL aircraft more than 500 miles”
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