Australia's Accelerating eVTOL Flying Car

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 From Downunder, Alauda Aeronautics






                                         
Source:  Alauda

Alauda's Airspeeder Completes 250 Successful Flights

Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are a big, global, growth industry.  Morgan Stanley estimates the market will be worth $1.5 trillion by 2040.  A major industry player, Alauda Aeronautics, is emerging from Downunder in Adelaide, Southern Australia.  The company has just marked the 250th successful flight of its eVTOL Airspeeder.  And the company is helping to develop new technological breakthroughs for eVTOLs by establishing a competitive, global racing league for eVTOL/flying cars.  The concept is to foster and incubate innovation the way race car development has fostered breakthrough technologies for the automotive industry.   Alauda says it is racing to deliver a revolution in personal air mobility so that everyone will have a flying car.  

Off to the Races

Alauda is building the eVTOL racers for upcoming competitive events.  The EXA race series will be held later this year in which the flying eVTOLs will be remotely piloted. Piloted races will get underway in 2023.  The technologies supporting these racing competitions are fascinating.  Alauda says it has established much of the digital and physical infrastructure needed for the races, including "Digital Sky Gates", flight zone mapping and tracking, V2V communications and pilot, engineer and race control stations. The remote-control pilots will operate the aircraft using highly advanced Head Up Displays (HUD).

eVTOL Technology

According to Alauda, their eVTOL Airspeeder has a greater thrust to weight ratio than a fighter jet. It has maximum maneuverability at high speeds, an all-electric power train and a carbon fiber chassis for lightweight strength.  There are 8 propellers and 8 electric motors. It's powered by a 500-kW battery.  Top speed is 155 mph plus.  And it has skid type landing gear.  Airspeeder is at the cutting edge of the development of new, innovative technologies for flying cars.  For more news stories like this, The Future of Flying

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