Volocopter, a German startup building electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, has secured $182 million for the second signing of its Series E round. That's on top of the $170 million ...

Christian Bauer of Volocopter shows off the battery packs in a mock-up of their short range e-VTOL in its first showing in the USA at CoMotion LA It’s been estimated that around 300 different ...

Volocopter, the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets ...

The dream of flying taxis just hit a big roadblock. Volocopter, a German company making electric air taxis, has gone bankrupt. Over 10 years, the company raised $544 million from investors like Saudi ...

Despite the tense economic climate manifested globally, German eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) developer Volocopter managed to raise more money in funding, staying focused on its goal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volocopter’s flying taxi is up, up and away. The German startup, which is one of the pioneers in urban air mobility, just shared a ...

Urban air mobility (UAM) company Volocopter announced this week that they have entered a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, aimed at developing an aerospace cloud system in Microsoft Azure. If ...

Volocopter's VoloConnect may be the real deal, however, as it flew for the first time last month. The Bruchsal, Germany-based Volocopter company made the announcement this Tuesday (June 7th), at the ...

The concept of UAM (urban air mobility) is constantly getting closer to becoming a reality, with German eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) developer Volocopter spreading its wings all over ...

Better known for its work developing audacious 18-rotor flying taxis to solve congestion in city centers, Volocopter is adapting its expertise in electric aviation for the purposes of moving heavy ...

German urban air mobility company Volocopter just announced that the four-seater VoloConnect aircraft completed its first flight in May. The VoloConnect, an electric fixed-wing passenger aircraft ...

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