eVTOL operator profitability: an elusive dream?

Subscription Required By Judson Rollins Sept. 25, 2023, © Leeham News: As the hype grows around electric-powered short-haul air mobility, questions linger around the industry’s ability to be profitable without government subsidy. LNA’s Bjorn Fehrm has written extensively… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 6.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm August 17, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as they come closer to Certification and… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 5.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm August 10, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as they come closer to Certification and… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 4.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm August 3, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and the reality as they come closer to Certification and Production. After… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole, Part 3.

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 27, 2023, © Leeham News: We look at the promises that the VTOL industry has made in their Investor prospects and what the reality is as they come closer to Certification and… Read More

The reality behind the eVTOL industry’s hyperbole

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm July 13, 2023, © Leeham News: We have done a deep dive series on the cost problems experienced by small airliners and how these make life difficult for alternative propulsion projects. The eVTOL… Read More

Day One at Paris: Airbus lands record IndiGo deal for 500 A320s

By Bryan Corliss Monday, June 19, 2023, © Leeham News – Airbus landed a huge but widely expected order for 500 A320s from Indian carrier IndiGo, as the 2023 Paris Air Show got underway Monday. Analysts had issued… Read More

The production cost trap for eVTOL upstarts

Subscription required By Bjorn Fehrm April 13, 2023, © Leeham News: Last week, we gave the example of a new propulsion principle 30-seat airliner as a project that would face the liquidity strain of initial production costs. We… Read More

Pontifications: Technical challenges for UAMs, et al, only part of the problems

March 28, 2023, © Leeham News: Technical challenges for alternative energy aircraft are daunting. Urban Air Mobility, Advanced Air Mobility, eVTOLs, batteries, hydrogen, hybrids—this list goes on. Advances are reaching a point where some of the concepts in… Read More