Joby Aviation's eVTOL aircraft cruises at 200 mph with a 100-mile range and weighs less than a Tesla. Its four to five engines have built-in redundancy: if one fails, others keep it flying. The company completed a 500-mile hydrogen fuel-cell test flight and expects certification by end of 2025.
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Behind me is the Joby. Joby's probably the leader where all the eVTOLs are in the certification process, and they're creating a lot of the new technologies from the ground up. So this vehicle is going to be about 200 miles an hour, going to have about a 100-mile range. It's one of the coolest looking, but you can't buy it, and they're going to be operated mostly by Joby. The equipment on it is pretty much standard on most of these. It's amazing the fact that this weighs less than a Tesla, so it's a super light vehicle. However, you got really 4 or 5 monster engines on it, and they have a double engine in each nacelle. Which means if one happens to go out, there's a backup cell to go ahead and keep the thing running. And not only that, if you lose one or two, the system has artificial intelligence to make sure the distribution doesn't have any equilibrium distraction in the operation. It's already flown over 500 miles using a hydrogen cell. That's not in the initial delivery of these, but it's a test that they've done which really pushed the envelope even further. And they think that they'll be certifying these maybe by the end of 2025.
