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Drone Taxi Market to see Booming Business Sentiments | Volocopter, Lilium, Opener Aero, Joby Aviation

Advance Market Analytics published a new research publication on “Global Drone Taxi Market Insights, to 2027” with 232 pages and enriched with self-explained Tables and charts in presentable format. In the study, you will find new evolving Trends, Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities generated by targeting market-associated stakeholders. The growth of the Drone Taxi market was mainly driven by the increasing R&D spending across the world.

Major players profiled in the study are:

Airbus (Netherlands), Boeing (United States), Textron (United States), Ehang (China), Joby Aviation (United States), Volocopter (Germany), Lilium (Germany), Opener Aero (United States), Tetra (Japan), Urban Aeronautics (Israel)

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Drone Taxi is being developed by both start-ups and established businesses, including Boeing, Hyundai, Airbus, Toyota, and Uber. Toyota, Uber, Hyundai, Airbus, and Boeing have all promised to transport passengers through the sky in flying taxis. The idea is to connect metropolitan areas with suburbia while avoiding traffic. Air taxis might travel at speeds of up to 180 mph at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 feet. Venture-backed start-ups like Uber, as well as big car and airline industries, are all vying for a piece of this embryonic industry. The company has the potential to drastically alter the urban mobility sector, and investors are spending millions of dollars on commercialization initiatives. They are drawn to the notion that electric air taxis have the potential to significantly reduce operating and maintenance expenses. Drone Taxi comes in a variety of forms and sizes, and many of them look nothing like traditional fixed-wing aircraft. Electric motors replace jet engines, and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft feature spinning wings and, in certain cases, rotors in place of propellers to obviate the need for long runways. Only a few businesses are producing vehicles that resemble automobiles with wings.

The Global Drone Taxi Market segments and Market Data Break Down are illuminated below:

by Application (Ride-Sharing Companies, Scheduled Operators, Hospital and Medical Agencies., Private Operators), Operated (Remotely Piloted, Fully Autonomous), Capacity (Up to 2, 3 to 5, More than 5), Location Range (Intracity, Intercity), Propulsion (Fully Electric, Hybrid, Electric Hydrogen)

Market Opportunities:

Intracity transportation: Short-term opportunity

Technological advancements in the sector

Market Drivers:

Growing demand for an alternative modes of transportation in urban mobility

Smart city initiatives

Improved regulatory framework

Market Trend:

Increasing demand for autonomous air ambulance vehicles

More efficient batteries and advanced manufacturing techniques

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Analyze and Measure the Global Drone Taxi Market by Identifying Investment across various Industry Verticals

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Identify the Right Verticals

Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, South America, Middle East & Africa

Country Level Break-Up: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand etc.

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Chapter 5: Displaying the by Type, End User and Region/Country 2016-2021

Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Drone Taxi market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

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tastydregs · 2 years

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self-flying eVTOL ‘wisk’ flies 4 people up to 4,000 feet in air at 120 knots

No pilot needed to self-flying evtol ‘wisk’

Calling a taxi to avoid traffic has taken a new turn. After over a decade since its first launch, air mobility company Wisk Aero has finally unveiled Wisk, its 6th-generation eVTOL that is self-flying, four-seater, and all-electric. It took the company six generations of aircraft design starting in 2011 before it could produce the eVTOL it desired today, learning as the whole team went and constantly applying techniques acquired from the previous aircraft. The flying taxi, thanks to its cab color, looks giant thanks to its over 50-foot wingspan. It is all-electric that can be charged in just 15 minutes, has a range of 90 miles (with reserves) or 144 kilometers, can fly up to 4,000 feet above ground level, has a cruising speed between 110 and 120 knots, and has a room for carry-on luggage items.

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Simplified design with no moving parts for safety

Even if the pilot or the passengers in the front row do not know how to maneuver Wisk, it will not be a problem since the eVTOL is fully autonomous with human oversight on the ground. Passengers can just sit back and enjoy the landscape view from above. If they are still fearful that something might happen, Wisk Aero assures them that Wisk has ‘a simplified design with fewer moving parts, fully redundant systems, and no single point of failure.’ This also entails that the company has decreased the number of flight-critical moving parts from their eVTOL that could contribute to the high-risk of failure. As the company explains, ‘fewer moving parts means fewer points of failure.’ Inside, the 6th-generation eVTOL Wisk has a larger and spacious interior to accommodate the four passengers and their pieces of luggage.

self-flying eVTOL Wisk

Over a decade of development for wisk

Gary Gysin, CEO of Wisk, says that in 2010, he and his team set out to find a way to skip traffic and reach their destination faster. No cars, just aircraft. This desire evolved into a pursuit to create a flying taxi for everyone. They have tried to make this happen through the development of five different generations of full-scale aircraft that has led to the creation of the recent Wisk. ‘Our 6th Generation aircraft is the culmination of years of hard work from our industry-leading team, learnings from our previous generations of aircraft, and the evolution and advancement of technology,’ he adds. Wisk is backed by two aviation companies, The Boeing Company and Kitty Hawk Corporation, which help them with aircraft development, scale manufacturing, and certification.

self-flying eVTOL Wisk is all-electric that can be charged in just 15 minutes

it has a range of 90 miles (with reserves) or 144 kilometers

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teknikadamfeylefus-blog · 7 years

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Uçan Araba Olmaz Demeyin

Teknoloji haberleri kategorimizde bu gün bir uçan araba var.

Uçan araba eskiden bilim kurgu filmlerinde sıkça gördüğümüz araçlardı ancak bu hayal olmaktan çıktı ve gerçek oldu. Hem de hem karada hem de havada gidebiliyor. Arabayı yapan firma hiç de teknoloji devi gibi görünmese de aslında tam bir teknolojidevi ki, herkesin hayal edebileceğini o yaptı. Arabadan sizin de…

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hazyheel · 5 years

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Impact United We Stand Review

I haven’t watched much Impact Wrestling this year, but this was definitely a show that I was excited for. I’m a big impact fan, but given that it’s shows are on Friday nights, I don’t normally watch week to week, but I like to follow along and watch the big shows like this. The show was decent overall, but not phenomenal. Surprisingly fun time though, for a pretty paint by numbers B-Show.

First match was an Ultimate X match for #1 contendership to the X-division championship. It was Jake Crist vs Dante Fox vs Pat Buck vs Ace Austin vs Johnny Impact. The beginning of the match was about everyone feeling each other out, with various strikes and flying moves. Impact definitely had his eye on the prize the most, as he was going for the X from the second the bell rang, at one point, Austin pilled Impact off the the cables into a huge powerbomb. The match was a lot of pulling people off of the cable and off of the ropes for big spots, but there wasn’t much of a story throughout the match. Impact hit some cool crucifix urenagi on Austin. At one point, Austin hit a huge somersault Senton off the top of the pillar. Fox and impact had a good segment together, where they battled into a Spanish fly spot, taking Fox out of the match. At one point, Austin went for the X with his legs wrapped around the cable, but Crist caught him with an awesome looking cutter to take Austin out of the match. Impact then used the chaos as a distraction to grab the X and win the match.

Grade: C+. Pretty car crash style match. Not much of a story. There were some cool spots, but not enough to really pick up the slack that was left from not having much. I like the idea of Johnny winning here, gives some intrigue for the X-Division. Decent match, but not quite good enough for anything higher than a C+.

Next, there was a backstage segment, showing some dissection in Team Impact, where Moose and Eddie Edwards argued about getting in each other’s way. Brian Cage calmed them down, saying that there can’t be infighting because they are already down a man, due to Impact living them. Edwards then implied that he had a fix for the numbers disadvantage. He walked away, and Moose yelled after him that he better not be talking about Kenny the Kendo stick.

That match came on next: Team Lucha Underground vs team impact in an 8 man tag. Lucha Underground has Aero Star, Daga, Drago and Marty Martinez, while impact had Eddie Edwards, Brian Cage, and Moose. However, Tommy Dreamer came out fill out the rest of Team Impact and help them out. Edwards and Aero Star started out, wrestling to a standstill. Dreamer and Martinez tagged in. The younger guys then took advantage of his lack of mobility, eventually forcing him to tag out. Daga and Cage has a great exchange. These two had really great chemistry, and Cage was in the advantage, but Moose tagged himself in. Moose was quickly beaten down before a long sequence of dives. Cage hit an awesome sequence of an ensiguri, superkick and a German suplex on Daga. Just as Team Impact got the advantage, Moose speared Cage, taking him out. Dreamer then attacked Moose with a kendo stick and Edwards him with a suicide dive. Martinez toon advantage of the infighting, hitting Dreamer with a double underhook DDT.

Grade: B-. Fun match, with a lot of fast paced action. The story was simple from the start, with Team Impact just not being nearly as cohesive of a unit as Lucha Underground. Daga and Cage has some awesome interaction, and that was really the highlight of the matches. Good stuff, and it makes sense that Lucha Underground would win here. Good stuff, love that rivalry between shows.

Next was the Knockouts Championship match, Taya Valkyrie vs Jordynne Grace vs Katie Forbes vs Rosemary. Rosemary got taken out right in the beginning of the match, while the other three locked up in the middle of the ring. Everyone had a one on one segment with Valkyrie, with Rosemarie even getting the better of her. Grace was really the highlight of the match, as she really wrestled circles around the rest of the women. Grace hit a huge missile dropkick to Forbes, who had Valkyrie in a fireman’s carry. As Rosemarie got the advantage, Su Yung came out to distract her, and then the two fought backstage. Grace hit the grace Driver on Forbes, but Valkyrie pulled her off and got the pin herself.

Grade: D. Just not super good wrestling. Grace had a lot of the highlights here, while everyone else just seemed very clunky. Just a little clumsy of a match, and I wasn’t into that.

Next, LAX took on Low Ki and Ricky Martinez. It took a while for any wrestling to take place, as there was a lot of jaw jacking between everyone. Santana and Low Ki started the match out, just feeling each other out with various kicks and quick strikes. They slowly got more and more violent, with Low Ki snapping on a cross arm breaker in the corner to maintain the advantage. Ortiz and Martinez brawled a bit, ending in a sort of arm trap back body drop. At one point, Ortiz had Martinez hanging off the corner, and Santana superkicked him into a cutter from Ortiz, but Ki broke up the pin with a senton. Martinez and Ki then hit an ensiguri/ electric chair drop for a near fall. Santana then took Ki down outside, allowing Ortiz to hit a Death Valley driver for the win.

Grade: B-. The match just never picked up into second gear. Both teams have good fundamentals, but it seemed to end a little early, and the hatred that it felt like should be involved in the match wasn’t there. Still, cool to see Low Ki again.

Into an intergender match, Joey Ryan took on Tessa Blanchard. I was definitely looking forward to this match, because Blanchard is very no nonsense, while Ryan is just one of the goofiest wrestlers in the world. Ryan tried to have a test of strength with his dick, but Blanchard refused. It seemed like Ryan’s goal in the match to have Blanchard touch his dick. Blanchard was having none of it, brutally beating him down at all points. She even had him in the corner for a shattered dreams, but hit a running codebreaker instead. Ryan worked over her left shoulder, but lost the advantage when she hit an awesome suicide dive and diving senton. After hitting a boob plex, Ryan then nailed the dick flip for a near fall. He then took out another lollipop from his strucks, gave it to Blanchard and hit a superkick for another near fall. Ryan had Blanchard up for a superplex, but Blanchard kicked him off and hit Magnum for the win.

Grade: B. Very fun match. Blanchard’s refusal to bend to Ryan’s Movesets was very cool to see, and although she didn’t get in much offense, it was nice to see Ryan get his ass beat when he did. He is quite the slimeball, but that’s what makes him so good.

Next was the X-Division Championshio match, Rich Swann against Flamita. The two started firing on all cylinders right away, hitting hurricanrana and then a suicide dive. The two continued to go counter for counter throughout the match, with Flamita even hitting a butterfly backbreaker. Swann kept refusing to stay down, and stood up to the bigger Flamita in a striking and chopping contest in the middle of the ring. Swann then took Flamita off the top with a hurricanrana, and then hit the Phoenix splash for the win.

Grade: B+. Really good stuff here. I haven’t seen much of Flamita in the past, and I am always pleasantly surprised with his abilities. They were going hard and fast, and they killed each other. Their moves flowed incredibly well, and so did their counters. Loved to see Rich Swann again, and I look forward to his match with Johnny Impact.

Into the hardcore match of the night, it was a monsters ball between Jimmy Havoc and Sami Callihan. Havoc started out with the violence quickly, stapling Callihan and in the chest and back, and Callihan countered by smacking him with a ring bell. The match was just as bloody as I thought it would be. Both men targeted each other’s eyes, with Callihan using that to score a piledriver on the apron. Callihan introduces a stapler of his own, stapling Havok in the head and arms, stapling newspapers to him. He then poured lemon juice into Havok’s cuts. Havok countered with paper cuts between fingers, lips and toes, before salting the wound. Havok then hit a Death Valley driver onto a trash can for a near fall. Callihan then landed two piledrivers, one onto legos and the other onto chairs for the win. They first bumped at the end of the match for the sportsmanship

Grade: B+. Disgusting and awesome match. They put themselves through so much during this match, and it was difficult to watch at times, but it really was entertaining to see. They didn’t quite wrestle enough to get into the A range, but still, match of the night.

And finally, the main event, The Lucha Bros vs Sabu and RVD in an extreme tag match. The Titles were not on the line here. They started dueling chants of Cero Miedo and Rob Van Dam. Everyone began brawling, and the legends hit their signature offense. A table was introduced, but the table was breaking before anyone even went through it. RVD and Sabu put the Lucha Bros through the table with stereo leg drops. RVD went up top again, but Pentagon threw a chair and knocked him off. Fenix and Pentagon then hit fear factor for the win. All men shook hands after the match.

Grade: B-. The Lucha Bros carried this match like a backpack. It was a short match, but it didn’t seem like RVD and Sabu could do much more than they did. Still, decent wrestling, and it was cool to see the legends again. Fun times, but ultimately not a great match.

Overall Grade: B-

Pros: impact vs lu; inter gender match; X-division championship; monsters ball; main event (kinda)

Cons: disappointing ultimate x; knockouts championship; poor production quality.

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Where’s my flying car?

The Jetsons cartoons gave a boomer generation a vision of seemingly magical powered flying vehicles. Are we any closer? Mark Pesce wonders if aero-autos are finally ready for takeoff.

Backed by billions in venture capital and a recent IPO, one startup aims to have its flying taxi on the market in three years. While they may be ahead of the pack, they’re not alone. Is this the decade we finally get our Jetsons car?

The most obvious reality check draws on our experiences around the original flying car – the helicopter. Helicopters are really loud. They transit CBD skylines every day, and from 100 metres a launching helicopter has a volume of 90 decibels – about the same as a power lawn mower. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands, and it’s immediately apparent that a world full of flying cars would be deafening. Conversation in public would become impossible. Birds, already adapting their song to the higher ambient noise levels in urban areas, would fall silent, unable to compete. We wouldn’t be able to hear ourselves think.

Archer’s battery-powered two-seater demonstrator. Credit: Archer

The Jetsons’ flying car, with its soft and satisfying electronic putt-putt-putt sound, is iconic, but right here right now a quiet flying car looks like a physical impossibility. To keep a heavy bit of kit airborne requires the movement of lots of air – either through propellers or jets. Even if an aircraft were to completely eliminate engine noise (and that day is coming) it would still be pushing a lot of air around, and moving air is sound in its rawest form – a wave of compression through the atmosphere. So a quiet flying car might need to rely upon some sort of magical “anti-gravity” technology not even glimpsed in our wildest predictions of physics. Unlikely.

Even if we could solve the noise problem (give all the people and animals noise-cancelling headphones to wear?), we’d immediately run into another problem: scale. The skies over any Australian city hold only very few flying objects, measured in the tens, or, at the most, the low hundreds. Managing even that number of aircraft requires fully crewed air traffic control centres scattered around the country. Presuming a one-to-one substitution of flying cars for ground vehicles – because, of course, everyone would want one – there would soon be hundreds of thousands of flying cars above our city skies every morning and every evening.

Joby Aviation’s sky taxi. Credit: Joby Aviation.

All drivers know that, at best, other drivers on their roads can be inattentive – at worst, downright reckless. Drivers tolerate that risk where a collision means little more than a prang that can be buffed out. But even a glancing blow at speed and altitude would likely create multiple fatalities as both vehicles fell from the sky, crashing into the dense cityscape below. Given the number of prangs on an average day in our cities, our flying-car-filled skies would become a shooting gallery, raining carnage down onto an undefended population.

Operating in such a crowded and dangerous environment may simply be beyond the capacity of even the best pilots. Although millions around the world hold flying licences, all of them are taught to operate aircraft within far less crowded environments than those that will accompany the introduction of flying cars.

ASKA plans for a hybrid electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) that works as an aircraft and ground car. Credit: NFT Inc.

A pilot does their utmost to continuously scan the volume of space they’re operating within, maintaining awareness of all the aircraft (and weather conditions) that could force them into a rapid reaction. Make that a hundred times harder – as it certainly would be during peak hour – and it falls so far beyond the cognitive capabilities of any human being as to make it effectively impossible. Pilots would never be able to maintain the awareness they need to guide their craft safely from takeoff to landing.

Despite all of these fundamental roadblocks, this year looks set to mark the birth of a realistic flying car. Toward the end of February, super-secretive startup Joby Aviation unveiled the first model of its own “flying taxi” in a YouTube video narrated by the firm’s founder, JoeBen Bevirt. The video starts off normally enough, with Bevirt talking about the decade-long research and development efforts that led to the aircraft sitting on a landing pad behind him. It’s an aircraft that looks like it has more in common with a $2000 UAV – a drone – than anything you’d see in the skies today, with six large propellers mounted above the aircraft, but parallel to the ground, just as they would be on a drone – or, for that matter, the main rotor of a helicopter.

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About 95 seconds into the video, something extraordinary happens: the propellers begin to spin, as the aircraft slowly powers up. Although you can see Bevirt’s hair being tossed around as the propellers send a wash of air in his direction, he continues to speak in relatively measured tones.

Within 15 seconds, that aircraft has risen vertically above the landing pad, while Bevirt continues to speak. In terms of live demos, it’s as impressive as anything Steve Jobs ever came up with; in a single stroke, Bevirt shows that Joby Aviation has created an aircraft that’s both quiet and has VTOL – vertical take-off and landing capabilities. All of the best qualities of a helicopter, with none of the drawbacks.

Although mounted on a fixed wing, those propellers themselves are not fixed in place. Once the aircraft has attained sufficient altitude, they can rotate 90 degrees, facing forward, just as you’d see on a normal propeller-driven aircraft. That gives it both excellent range – more than 250 km – and a top speed of well over 300 km/h. The final kicker: just like a drone, it’s battery-powered, and 100% electric.

Kitty Hawk recently revealed their plans for a single-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Credit: Kitty Hawk.

The weight and size of the batteries needed to get an aircraft airborne made electrically-powered flight the Holy Grail of 21st century aviation. For 120 years, energy-dense petroleum fuels have been the only real option to generate the necessary thrust. Advances in electric vehicles have come to the aid of the flying car: the same batteries that make electric vehicles cheap and reliable make it possible for Joby Aviation to create an electric flying taxi. They, and other flying car ventures like Archer Aviation, Kitty Hawk and Lilium Jet, could crowd our skies with quiet(er) flying cars.

A recent report on Advanced Air Mobility from consultancy LEK noted more than 200 similar designs in development, with 30 seeking FAA flight certification in the US. Report author Natasha Santha reckons flying taxis “will not be commonplace globally in the next five years… However, the industry has tremendous potential to scale and deliver services at the cost of a taxi today at the fraction of the time.”

The Lilium Jet’s first prototype flew in 2019. Credit: Lilium

Could these new aircraft reshape our cities? The pandemic has seen the rise of the “supercommuter”, travelling more than three hours each way to reach the office, doing so only a few times a month. Flying taxis could make such journeys fast, and cheap enough that flying becomes the obvious choice. With the urban advantage already eroded by high-speed broadband, we might see a new generation of rural residents, each with their own landing pad, ready to fly to the city at a moment’s notice. “For the regional market,” Santha says, “costs could be as low as around 40 cents per km… materially changing the transport landscape.”

What this means for air traffic control remains an open question. Santha warns that lots of flying taxis create “another set of barriers, which are related to how we can integrate larger volumes [of air traffic]… moving to remote and autonomous piloting”.

In the long-term, a “fly-by-wire” solution similar to that on commercial aircraft could see these flying cars piloted by artificial intelligence. Will that be enough to avoid mid-air prangs? Look to the skies for the answer.

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baichday · 4 years

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Amazing Future Flying Cars and Taxis

Amazing Future Flying Cars and Taxis Technology has made the world its home from the past decade. We have become so used to it that now we can’t imagine a day without it. Wonders of technology are so obvious that today we expect anything from it. In this article, we will briefly discuss the futuristic cars and taxis that will blow your mind. Uber’s VTOL Taxis 2020: Today everyone is familiar with the car company named Uber. Uber is most popular for its services like taxis. It has made conveyance easier than ever. Now they are working on flying cars which are absolutely on another level. They are expecting to launch their flying taxis in 2023. It is quite amazing and surprising for Uber fans and users. But keeping in view their previous progress and record, we can expect that much progress and efficiency from this developed company. Latest Aero Mobil’s Prototype-Flying Cars: It is another company which is coming with the same idea of flying cars. They are also working on it. The company states that their flying cars will be called supercars or craziest-concept-cars because they will have some sort of superpowers. They are not just saying this because they are working on their fourth prototype. One unique thing about their car is that it works both ways. This means you can drive it on the road and fly it in the air. We are eagerly waiting for this masterpiece to launch as soon as possible. Read the full article

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tastydregs · 3 years

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XPeng 1024 Flying Car Concept

Chinese EV car manufacturer XPeng unveiled a flying car concept at its 1024 Tech Day. The concept uses an ultra-futuristic, Blad Runner-esque design and twin rotors that retract into the bodywork, giving the car a normally-sized footprint. XPeng used its air mobility subsidiary HT Aero for control systems and flight properties, and aims to have the flying car production-ready by 2024.

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Flying Cars? Goodyear has the aero concept tires

When the day comes that autonomous, flying cars are the norm, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will have the tires. The Aero concept tires of today will fit George Jetson’s flying car of the future. The tire maker unveiled its latest concept tires at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show, calling the Aero a “two-in-one tire designed for the autonomous, flying cars of the future. This concept would work both as a tire for driving on the road and a propeller for flying through the sky.” The Goodyear Aero may be a concept tire, but the tire maker says some of its technologies and capabilities are already in development. And while the Aero is definitely a concept tire, Goodyear says some of its technologies, such as its non-pneumatic structure and intelligent tire properties, are under development. Others could be the basis for new ideas and future products. “Goodyear’s concepts are meant to trigger a debate on the tires and transport technologies for a new mobility ecosystem,” the company says. Here’s a rundown of the technology in the Aero: Multimodal design: The Aero is a multimodal tilt-rotor concept. It would serve as a drive train to transfer and absorb forces to and from the road in a traditional orientation and an aircraft propulsion system to provide lift in another orientation. With capable vehicles, the tire would give future commuters the freedom to move seamlessly from the road to the sky. Non-pneumatic structure: The concept’s spokes would provide support to carry the weight of the vehicle, and also act as fan blades to provide lift when the tire is tilted. The airless tire uses a non-pneumatic structure that's flexible enough to dampen shocks when driving on the road, and strong enough to rotate at the high speeds necessary for the rotors to create vertical Continue reading - Flying Cars? Goodyear Has the Tires Read the full article

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Flying Green: The future electric or hybrid of the aerospace industry

When George Lucas imagined that cell-powered flying cars worked in his "Star Wars" prequels, he was not far to predict the future of transportation. With leading players in the field of the aerospace industry who favor the idea of electric and hybrid aircraft, the coming decades are ready to deploy the possibilities not only of flying cars, but also of long-range commercial flights driven By cell phones As the march towards electric and hybrid planes becomes more determined with each step, we find ourselves, once again, on the verge of turning reality into science fiction.

Why electric planes are in the works

When it comes to environmental impacts, the global aviation industry accounts for only 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. However, there is a growing environmental concern. Since 1990, the industry has witnessed an 83% increase in emission levels. The main reason for this has been the increasing number of aircraft propelled by fossil fuels that are launched into the sky. Gaseous emissions, however, can not be identified as the only environmental impact. Water vapor emissions at high altitudes cause a phenomenon called stelae. These residual escape plumes contribute to the effect of global warming by trapping the heat emanating from the surface of the Earth.

While adverse effects on the environment and stringent environmental regulatory standards are an important reason, they are not the only indicators to shift towards more ecological energy and propulsion systems. A move towards electric / hybrid propulsion systems can translate into a commercial advantage for the companies that invest in them. One of the most decisive advantages of electric motors is that they are lighter and cheaper than their gas turbine counterparts.

Electric and hybrid airplanes are no longer just a concept. The ecological and lucrative aspect of this transformation in the aviation industry is becoming a strong instigator for many companies. A major European budget airline recently announced that it is on track to launch a 180-seat, all-electric aircraft by 2027. By moving away from fossil fuels, the new design is able to reduce noise pollution by 50%, as well as Minimizing the cost for airlines by 10%.

Reimagining aircraft design: benefits and obstacles

The lighter weight of electric motors opens a world of possibilities for design. This particular advantage of the electric motor allows them to be easily incorporated into new designs, as well as existing designs compatible with electricity. An example of this that is prepared to significantly affect urban air mobility solutions is the use of electromagnetic energy in the next generation of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL). The flexibility of the electric cables gives them an obvious compatibility advantage with the orientation of the wing over the rigid fuel lines.

In terms of aerodynamic design, the prospects are also quite interesting. A new design that incorporates an electric motor can implement an efficient air intake in the boundary layer at the rear of the aircraft to reduce drag. The revolution in aircraft design goes one step further with the consideration of distributed propulsion. The distributed propulsion design could eliminate the conventional design of the tail plane, completely transferring the control of the angle of rotation to differential thrust even in the event of selective failure of the propeller.

The electrical revolution in aircraft design has already begun to take shape. A newly designed all-electric aircraft weighing 300 times less than a full-size fuel plane is capable of a 600-mile range flight powered by its 980kWh lithium-ion battery. The new version of the design equips the plane with a main propeller and two wing tip propellers.

There are, however, some challenges on the way to such a revolution. One of the most obvious obstacles to designing and implementing an electric / hybrid aircraft is that of an efficient energy source. A high-density power supply is required to ensure a lighter plane without the need to sacrifice in the flight range for intercontinental flights. Other challenges surrounding these new age aircraft include the management of high-voltage systems and the ratio of energy to speed. Thermal problems and tolerance offer obstacles from a mechanical engineering position. In a recent step forward, a British research group funded a 6.1 million pound sterling project to undertake research to overcome these obstacles. The project focuses on the development of high density power systems and the approach of thermal problems on high voltage surfaces inside the motor, such as gear teeth.

The heavens ahead

We have constantly started flying in the right direction. The promise of a cleaner flight over new and exciting borders has been attractive to companies around the world. An example that has come to the fore is that of Zunum Aero. The Seattle-based aerospace company plans to commercially deploy electric aircraft. It is estimated that the developing aircraft has a cruising speed of 545 kilometers per hour with a flight range of more than 1,100 kilometers. The revolutionary design of the aircraft features a V-shaped tail and an all-electric propulsion gear that drives twin engines.

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The Future of Aviation: Aircraft Electrification

The following is a guest post by Jason D’souza, a recent MSc Graduate in Aerospace Vehicle Design from the University of Cranfield in the UK. Jason is a long-term reader of the blog and reached out to me about the idea of a guest post on electric aviation. As I have covered the prospects of electrification on my podcast, and believe that electrification will have profound effects on the aviation industry just like the jet engine did post-WWII, I thought this would be a great opportunity to get a young engineer with fresh ideas to write about this exciting area. And, of course, if you have any questions or want to discuss the topic matter, please feel free to reach out to Jason directly.

Introduction – The Need for Electric Propulsion

In the automotive industry, electrification is developing at a fast rate. In the UK, both electric and hybrid cars are becoming a common sight on roads and electric charging ports are ever-more common in car parks. Electric vehicles offer a better solution towards a cleaner, greener environment than their diesel/petrol counterparts, as well as reducing noise pollution for those living in busy residential areas. So, when will air travel and air freight follow this electric journey?

Certainly, aircraft emissions degrade air quality and have an increasing effect on global warming as most emissions occur at high altitudes. According to the European Union [1], aviation accounts for approximately three percent of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions, and more than two percent of global emissions. Although air travel currently accounts for only a small portion of global emissions, air travel is recognized as one of the fastest growing contributors, as elucidated in a recent study in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics journal. But by what mechanisms is aviation actually effecting the climate?

Aircraft engines do not only produce plenty of CO2, but also exhaust nitrous oxides, NOX, fine particulate matter, PM25, and ozone, O3. CO2 emissions are the most significant contributor to climate change and have the same effect regardless of altitude emission. However, at higher altitudes, NOX emissions are particularly effective in forming O3, thereby causing a greater global warming effect than would be the case at lower altitudes.

To put this into perspective, if you’ve ever played with a Carbon Footprint Calculator and plugged in a return trip from London to New York, this trip balloons your carbon footprint by more than 2000 pounds of CO2, nearly equivalent to the level of emissions incurred by heating an average European household for an entire year [2]. Reducing the CO2 impact of aircraft should be addressed as early as possible, as future regulations may impart even stricter regulations on environmental targets that will only be achieved by the use of the latest, and hence most expensive, technologies.

Average fuel burn for new jet aircraft, 1960-2010. Large reductions in fuel burn are seen from 1960 up to 1990s. Since then, further reductions have been modest, despite the development costs of new aircraft continuing to rise [3].

Hence, there is a clear incentive for cleaner, greener air mobility: the reduction of CO2, NOX, PM25 and O3 emissions, reduced noise and better fuel consumption. Currently, we have reached a plateau in terms of improving aircraft fuel efficiency and reducing emissions. By introducing electric battery-powered aircraft, an opportunity exists to reduce potentially harmful emissions even further and to make air travel quieter in urban areas. But is electric flight actually possible given the technological challenges?

Electric Innovations: Past, Present and Future

Many industry giants are researching and developing new prototypes and concepts for electrification. Commercially, the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 increasingly use battery power for several of their on-board systems to form an approach described as the ‘More-Electric Aircraft’ (MEA). At the same time, both Airbus and Boeing are actively developing methods to progress towards full electric propulsion. The strategy is to begin with a hybrid option first, with energy still provided by hydrocarbon fuels, and then progress to an all-electric system with batteries to provide energy for propulsion.

History of Electric Aircraft [4].

In technical terms, the main challenge that hybrid or electric aircraft, such as the Airbus E-Fan X, Zunum Aero and Wright Electric, are faced with is power-to-weight ratio or specific power. To make an all-electric system a reality, a battery with greater energy density than currently available, with a longer service life and improved reliability is needed. However, historic trends and current understanding of aircraft development cycles suggest that battery technology will not reach the required technical level and production rates until the 2030s to support even current aircraft scales.

Potential Propulsion System Architectures

In the short term, we will probably witness a ‘More Electric-Hybrid’ commercially sized aircraft rather than an ‘All-Electric’ alternative. This ‘More Electric-Hybrid’ version could deliver real benefits through reduced emissions and allow for the development of motors and power electronics for the transition to fully electric operation. Let’s examine, on a system level, what a hybrid powered solution might look like.

Three potential system architectures are shown with a progression from ‘More Electric – Hybrid’ to ‘Full – Hybrid’ to ‘All – Electric’. There are varying development needs for each system component and a large integration challenge for the complete systems. While other proposals for hybrid systems exist, those presented here are considered the most feasible at present [5].

Using an existing gas turbine with traditional jet fuel (kerosene) mixed with biofuels to drive an electric generator creates a simple and well-understood solution. However, new power electronics systems are likely to be required to control and transfer the electrical energy to electric motors to provide the requisite thrust.

If only batteries are used to power the remaining systems on the aircraft, then the architecture is known as a ‘More Electric-Hybrid’ solution. However, the power available from the generator and batteries can also be combined to power all aircraft systems to form a ‘Fully-Hybrid’ solution with each energy supply augmenting the other in different ratios during various flight phases. But, if kerosene is still the source of energy, then where does the reduction in emissions come from?

The aircraft’s flight is affected by the varying thrust requirements needed for take-off, climb, cruise, and altitude changes. Current jet engines are designed to operate in all conditions but do not always function optimally and efficiently in all flight segments. In a hybrid solution, the gas turbine can be isolated from changes in operational conditions and continuously run at an optimized speed to power an electric generator, which then drives the power electronics that provide electrical energy.

The main danger in this scenario is relying on unproven power distribution systems and electric motors. Indeed, one of the stated objectives of the Airbus E-Fan X program is to address this uncertainty with regards to electric power systems. Further advancements can be made by switching the kerosene-powered gas turbine and generator to battery power, thereby forming an ‘All-Electric’ system. In this case, the power electronics used for the hybrid solution will need to be adapted, but the propulsive element could remain the same.

Electric Motor Development

To date, Siemens has developed a 50 kg electric motor SP260D that delivers 260 kW power output—five times more than comparable hybrid electric propulsion systems of equal weight. However, this is still a long way away from the power required for a commercial aircraft to fly at acceptable speeds (2-50 MW). Nonetheless, Siemens has established its electric propulsion systems business through the development of the eAircraft program, now acquired by Rolls Royce.

Siemens develops propulsion system for the CityAirbus air taxi [6].

So, with improved technology, can enough power be generated? Currently, the answer to this question isn’t clear, keeping in mind changes to the overall aircraft weight, safety considerations for electrical systems, wiring routes, electrical interference, and thermal environment created by batteries.

A High Aspect-Ratio Wing Design

Aircraft wings are designed to withstand aerodynamic loads and carry jet fuel distributed across the span. For an electric aircraft, would there be any benefit of carrying batteries within the wings instead?

High aspect ratio wing [7].

One positive side-effect of electrification would be that the wing’s mass remains constant during flight (unless using lithium air batteries), creating novel opportunities for aeroelastic tailoring and aerodynamic optimization by allowing wings to become longer and thinner (better lift-to-drag ratio). A current challenge of designing long and slender wings for conventionally fueled is the onset of ‘aeroelastic flutter’, an unstable interaction between airflow and the wing’s elasticity that causes a buildup of oscillations and potential wing failure. With strategically placed batteries, thinner and longer wings could emerge as a viable design that doesn’t succumb to flutter, thereby improving aerodynamics and paving the way for radically different aircraft configurations.

The Need to Reduce Aircraft Mass

What happens to the weight of the airframe in a move towards hybrid or full electrification? In a hybrid system, the full propulsion and electrical system, combined with all the technical operation equipment inside the aircraft, will probably increase the mass of the airframe. Furthermore, as the aircraft is no longer shedding mass via fuel burn during flight, the landing weight of aircraft is likely to be higher than it is today. To compensate for these effects, reductions in the airframe mass are probably required to facilitate a fully electric system. Indeed, designing lighter airframes is a huge challenge, putting great requirements on future research on materials science to determine the full capabilities of next-generation metallic alloys and fiber-reinforced plastics.

Funding Resources

The best solutions often come from coordinated efforts to ensure a collaborative, knowledge-sharing approach that leads to conformity in standards. The UK is a major player in Aerospace Research & Development and is involved in extensive research networks, partnerships, and bids to numerous funding bodies working on developing the technology for the future of air travel.

These funding bodies include the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as well as the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) established between industry and the government to develop the UK’s technology strategy through £3.9 billion of investment. Another influential body is the Air Transportation Systems Lab, which collaborates on research projects with the UK and overseas universities.

Lastly, the largest European research program developing innovative technologies aimed at aircraft emission and noise reductions, known as the Clean Sky Initiative, has a €4 billion budget and has backed several projects like Airbus’ BLADE and Safran’s Contra Rotating Open Rotor engine.

Regulation

There is a need for new regulations addressing emerging technologies, platforms and systems related to electrification. Firstly, as new technologies are created in the field of electric aviation, each technology will need regulatory backing to determine the airworthiness of the technology. This is critical to establish broad regulatory acceptance for enabling technologies like high-power batteries, voltage distribution systems and boundary layer ingestion.

Subsequently, regulation will be critical to enable new platforms. Regulation and certification procedures for radically new architectures such as distributed fans will be required to enable the full potential of Electrical Propulsion. As a first step, both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are currently opening doors for electrical propulsion. For example, a key change in FAA Part 23 and EASA CS23 came into effect in 2017, allowing larger classes of general aviation aircraft to legally fly non-traditional engine types. This not only opens revenue potential for developers in general aviation, but this platform category is a key stepping stone to even larger architectures. There is, however, a long journey ahead and regulation must keep a-pace with the technological evolution of electric aircraft.

In April 2018, these new regulations provided the opportunity for Siemens to test the Magnus eFusion at Matkópuszta airfield in Hungary, using a Siemens SP55D electric motor and a FlyEco diesel engine to allow for silent take-off and landing with an extended range. The full electrical propulsion system is developed by the Siemens eAircraft program. Furthermore, a Los Angeles-based company Ampaire recently demonstrated its electric hybrid propulsion system at Camarillo Airport in California with its maiden flight test in June 2019. Their technology was adapted to the Cessna 337 Skymaster and is already considered by some as the largest hybrid-electric aircraft to have ever flown.

There’s Turbulence Ahead

Certainly, the biggest challenge is integration. For example, when designers and engineers have new technologies ready for flight, how does the industry support in-service operation? As an aviation company, how will business models need to adapt over the next twenty years? When is the best time to start thinking about how to integrate these new business models with the shift in aircraft architecture? Even though some of these changes are still years away, it pays to contemplate the disruptive nature of these changes now, and to consider strategies of how the industry can ready itself to face up to these coming challenges.

Additional Thoughts

Keeping in mind the potentially great opportunity aircraft electrification presents, Maintenance and Servicing Organizations (MRO’s) should be reconsidering their operations to address questions like what kind of physical infrastructure will be needed going forward? Topics for consideration range from how many spare batteries will need to be stored at airports and the most optimal location of recharging points, to how long it will take for the batteries to be charged or changed in between flights. The latter will be a considerable consideration for airlines, as an electric aircraft will not be earning money when it is recharging.

With regards to traffic control, what happens in the case of diversions and re-routing? Will regional electric aircraft take priority over long-range gas-powered aircraft? Or could quieter aircraft lead to additional airports in closer vicinity to cities, such that regional and long-range aircraft won’t share the same airspace? Finally, a major challenge will be instilling confidence in passengers about the safety of this new technology.

Conclusion – Where Do We Stand?

The continuing growth of the aviation sector has buoyed production rates and has led Airbus and Boeing to establish themselves as the key players in the aviation market. This duopoly has only been reinforced by recent mergers and acquisitions of smaller operations (Bombardier and Embraer). The shift to electrification poses a risk to incumbents, as this new paradigm in propulsion levels the playing field for new entrants entering the market.

At the same time, both incumbents and new players will face key technical barriers, such as improving the current energy storage capacity per unit weight of batteries, as well as light and efficient electrical generators, motors and power electronics able to convert, condition and switch to high voltage power.

On the regulatory side, airworthiness authorities will have to find approaches to certify novel aircraft architectures as for over fifty years commercial aircraft have not deviated from the gas turbine powered architecture. The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research (ACARE) has brought about a united sense of purpose across the European aviation sector to shift towards greener solutions and has set challenging goals, such as achieving seventy-five percent CO2 emission reductions per passenger.

These challenges mean that we will probably witness a ‘More Electric-Hybrid’ commercially sized aircraft in the near future rather than an all-electric alternative. This could, however, still deliver real benefits through reduced emissions and allow for the development of motors and power electronics for the switch to fully electric operation in the far-reaching future.

Further Reading

Roland Berger GMBH (2017). Aircraft Electrical Propulsion – The Next Chapter of Aviation?.

References

[1] European Commission. Reducing emissions from aviation, accessed 19/08/2019.

[2] I Herbert and J Brown (2006). Your carbon footprint revealed: Climate change report finds we each produce 11 tons of carbon a year – and breaks down how we do it, accessed 19/08/2019.

[3] D Rutherford (2011). Overturning conventional wisdom on aircraft efficiency trends. The International Council on Clean Transportation, accessed 19/08/2019.

[4] J Domone (2018). The challenges and benefits of the electrification of aircraft. Atkins, accessed 19/08/2019.

[5] M Price (2018). Current and emerging trends in the aerospace sector. Atkins, accessed 19/08/2019.

[6] Siemens (2018). Electric Flight. Accessed 19/18/2019.

[7] C Choi (2017). The 100-Year-Old Idea That Could Change Flight. PBS Nova, accessed 19/08/2019.

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Bentley EXP 100 GT looks to the future of luxury mobility as most sought-after luxury marque celebrates its Centenary

A physical embodiment of the future Bentley brand, it sets the benchmark for sustainable luxury mobility that is autonomous and electric

An intelligent car which captures extraordinary human journeys thanks to emotionally intelligent AI and allows them to be relived

Zero emissions powertrain with up to predicted 700km range, exquisite materials and protection of British craftsmanship put sustainable innovation foremost

A fully-autonomous car that can be driven when one wishes to enjoy the thrill of driving

Future of luxury craftsmanship with a seamless fusion of materials and intelligent curation of technology, and introducing light as a new luxury material

Sustainable future luxury created through the use of 5,000-year-old Copper Infused Riverwood; Compass exterior paint made from recycled rice husks; 100% organic leather-like textile from winemaking; Cumbrian crystal interfaces; British Farmed Wool carpets and embroidered cotton interior surfaces all create sustainable future luxury

On-board Bentley Personal Assistant maximises comfort by monitoring occupants’ well-being

Adaptable Biometric Seating and three different configurations

A perfect blend of performance, technology and craftsmanship

Bentley EXP 100 GT

(Crewe, 10 July 2019) Bentley Motors celebrates its 100th birthday by unveiling its vision of the future of luxury mobility at The Home of Bentley in Crewe. The Bentley EXP 100 GT is a physical embodiment of the future Bentley brand, reimagining Grand Touring for the future.

Beyond mere mobility, the Bentley EXP 100 GT concept car will enhance the owner’s Grand Touring experience, whether driving or being driven autonomously.

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Bentley EXP 100 GT is borne from pure Bentley DNA and inspired by the company’s deep understanding of the desires of its intelligent, forward-thinking customers. Beautifully styled, it embraces Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a means to reassert the car as a place for creating, experiencing and capturing extraordinary human experiences and emotions.

Designed from the inside out and taking advantage of an all-electric platform, Bentley EXP 100 GT reimagines the Grand Tourer for the world of 2035. This is a world of shared luxury experiences where passenger and driver enjoy equal status in their enjoyment of their extraordinary journeys. The cars’ presence and impressive exterior proportions are reminiscent of many of Bentley’s historic Grand Tourers but take these luxury hallmarks into the future. The result is a future vision commensurate with Bentley’s status as the world’s most sought after luxury brand.

Bentley EXP 100 GT

The meticulously sculpted cabin is luxuriously tactile, helping to create a harmonious environment designed around the well-being of its passengers. This is seamlessly integrated with the unique AI, known as the Bentley Personal Assistant, which helps the car’s occupants enhance and curate their Grand Tour experiences.

Sustainable innovation is also at the heart of the Bentley EXP 100 GT experience. The car is engineered to create a greater awareness of the world outside, with an intelligently-curated collection of materials including 5,000 year old Copper Infused Riverwood; Compass exterior paint made from recycled rice husks; 100% organic leather-like textile from wine making; British Farmed Wool carpets and embroidered cotton interior surfaces which all create sustainable future luxury, adding to the enhanced reality of the grand touring car of the future.

Adrian Hallmark, Bentley Chairman and CEO, said: “Today, on our Centenary, we demonstrate our vision of the future of our Marque, with the Bentley EXP 100 GT – a modern and definitive Grand Tourer designed to demonstrate that the future of luxury mobility is as inspirational and aspirational as the last 100 years.

Bentley has, and will continue to enhance and enrich every single journey and the lives of every single person who travels in, or has the honour to be a part of creating our extraordinary products.”

Stefan Sielaff, Director of Design said: “The Bentley EXP 100 GT represents the kind of cars we want to make in the future. Like those iconic Bentleys of the past, this car connects with its passengers’ emotions and helps them experience and safeguard the memories of the really extraordinary journeys they take.”

An inspiring blend of performance, technology and craftmanship, the Bentley EXP 100 GT is a beautiful, immersive and emotionally intelligent experience.

Luxury Beyond Mobility

The Bentley EXP 100 GT redefines the car as a space for extraordinary and emotional human experiences, ones that enrich and inspire. Bentley’s vision imagines the journeys of the future, drawing on 100 years of expertise in luxury design and craftmanship that are currently being celebrated around the world in the company’s Centenary year.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT’s sleek and muscular exterior explores the brand’s future design direction. It incorporates the company’s unmistakable DNA, remaining instantly recognisable as a Bentley. The famous R-Type Continental haunch at the rear, the round headlights that overlap the grille in a nod to the famous Bentley Blower and a long graceful body hint at famous models of yesteryear.

However, this Bentley journeys into the future. Made from lightweight aluminium and carbon fibre, the Bentley EXP 100 GT measures 5.8 metres long and almost 2.4 metres wide, and makes a statement of true luxury. This is further enhanced by decorative features crafted from copper and aluminium, both natural sustainable materials, which evoke founder W.O Bentley’s choice of materials to create the alloy for his famous BR1 Aero engine piston that played a major role in securing the air theatre in World War 1.

The driver and passenger doors are two metres wide and pivot outwards and upwards for effortless access. Fully open, they rise to almost three metres, adding to the sense of occasion on arrival.

The new exterior paint colour Compass is created using a special Colourstream pigment that reflects a beautiful spectrum of autumnal colours and is both sustainable and environmentally friendly. The pigment is synthetically made using rice husk ash, a harmful bi-product of the rice industry, remanufactured for the Bentley EXP 100 GT to reduce the amount that ends up in landfill waste.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT’s expressive exterior lighting is both dynamic and dramatic. A focal point is the smart, illuminated matrix grille and Flying B mascot which come to life as one approaches the car, light playing across the grille, through the mascot and along the bonnet central spine of the car and into the cabin itself. The car literally comes alive.

At the rear, a ‘horseshoe’ section of the boot is a 3D OLED screen on which lighting effects can blend in with the rear lamps.

Inside a luxurious cockpit, Bentley craftspeople have taken handcraftsmanship of materials to an as yet unseen level, setting the new benchmark for luxury interiors.

The finest natural materials such as wood, leather and glass are seamlessly blended with light, creating a unique interior environment that boosts the physical and mental well-being of passengers.

Exquisite materials graduate and flow throughout the handcrafted cabin of the Bentley EXP 100 GT. For example, the embroidery pattern of the sustainable textiles and leather complement the pattern of the grain in the naturally-felled wood veneer. These traditional, tactile materials reconnect passengers with the authentic, natural world around them.

Imperceptible joins between different materials such as wood, leather and wool allow an overall design motif to flow across all these surfaces. The materials are brought together by design, a seamless blend of patterns and forms, textures and colours. Glass flows into metal, into wood and into leather.

Light is core to life and in the Bentley EXP 100 GT it is harvested from the surrounding environment via an innovative glass roof embedded with prisms that collect light and transfer it into the cabin using fibre optics. The use of harvested natural light and synthesised light offers a new approach to enhancing wellness on board.

The Bentley Personal Assistant is a centre piece of the main console and visualised using illuminated crystal from Cumbria, England. Ambient lighting can also be modified to recreate a specific mood or exterior environment, while additional effects are delivered through projection mapping onto trim panels, such as door pads.

Intelligent, Adaptable Biometric Seating can be configured in three different ways, depending on whether the owner is driving or using autonomous mode. Biometric sensors monitor temperature, passenger position and environmental conditions to deliver the ultimate in comfort, whatever the conditions.

Bentley Personal Assistant pre-empts passenger needs and can even maximise comfort based on its knowledge of its owner. For example, reactive seat surfaces respond to passenger position during driving, automatically offering more support when the need is sensed.

In addition, biometrics are embedded throughout the Bentley EXP 100 GT to track eye and head movements, even blood pressure. It represents the future of customised, in-car comfort far beyond any seating experienced in a modern-day car.

An intelligent future for Grand Touring

Enhancing the occupants experience of their extraordinary journey in the Bentley EXP 100 GT is the Bentley Personal Assistant AI. This advanced, intelligent system defines the Grand Tourer of the future as it delivers a highly personalised experience to the passenger based on five distinct modes with individual characteristics: Enhance, Cocoon, Capture, Re-Live and Customise. Interaction with the AI is made through hand gestures made to the front or rear Cumbria Crystal interfaces that intuitively interpret the commands.

Enhance harvests inputs from the outside environment, such as light, sound, smell and air quality, offering a holistic grand tour, and a feeling of open top motoring from under the glass canopy.

Cocoon creates a protective space, including air purification and glass areas that turn opaque for privacy; while Capture records experiences from both inside and outside the car which become part of your car’s unique history.

Re-Live replays highlights of your Grand Tour, while Customise combines elements of all the different modes and are individually selected by the driver or passenger.

Sustainable Innovation – The Future of Bentley

Bentley believes its approach to innovation is created through a balance: Preservation of the world and the self should be at the forefront, while purposeful and intuitive innovation remains essentially linked to sustainability.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT features air and sound curation that promotes self-care and well-being in the car. These create a physiological, health-enhancing environment for passengers, promoting increased mindfulness in the cabin.

For example, Capture mode on Bentley Personal Assistant brings the external environment into the cabin, creating an open-top driving experience without taking the roof down. It also cocoons passengers – blocking and filtering air pollution in cities.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT has passive and active air intakes in the front grille, cooling the drivetrain and batteries that drive the car’s powerful electric motors. Unwanted air is channelled out of the car at the rear to aid aerodynamics.

The Air Purification System is located in the boot space to purify air before it is supplied into the cabin, with deployable air vents on the rear passenger shelf and static vents on the front passenger panel. The air vents undulate giving the appearance that the car is breathing and alive. Meanwhile, CO2 levels in the cabin are constantly monitored to maintain air quality.

As well as capturing exterior scents, Bentley has developed a unique scent for the Bentley EXP 100 GT. Created in collaboration with ethically-aware fragrance house 12.29, it builds on the rich heritage of Bentley, incorporating sandalwood and fresh moss.

The Bentley EXP 100 GT also puts passengers in control of how they disconnect and reflect, enhancing mindfulness by allowing occupants to live in the present. As screen-time become ever more present, these disconnecting, relaxing experiences have gained luxury status.

Rotary switches fashioned from copper and aluminium add tactility in a digital world.

The in-car displays enhance the grand tour experience using augmented reality, or can provide a relaxed cocoon on demand. All displays use a simple, intuitive interface that includes transparent OLED information displays in the doors, automatically darkening glass, and a front entertainment screen for displaying films, live video and other media when the Bentley EXP 100 GT is in autonomous driving mode.

Making a material difference to Sustainable Innovation

Bentley has collaborated with carefully selected industry experts to provide exceptional materials in the Bentley EXP 100 GT. All use sustainable and innovative techniques for customers who are environmentally-conscious and ethical in their brand choice.

Among them is the remarkable Copper Infused Riverwood, a sustainable wood from naturally fallen trees that has been preserved for 5,000 years in peat bogs, lakes and rivers. The Riverwood features in the cabin and has been sourced from The Fenland Black Oak Project, a British organisation set up to preserve this material for future generations.

Hand and Lock is the London-based embroidery company that employs exquisite, traditional techniques that date back to 1767 and are used on Royal and Military Dress uniforms. Their techniques are primarily used on the door panels of the Bentley EXP 100 GT, creating a seamless integration between different materials and a beautiful contemporary embroidery pattern.

Bridge of Weir Leather of Scotland works with specifically selected, locally sourced hides for Bentley to create a soft, natural leather enhanced by its environment. With the ultimate Super Natural finish, this will be Bentley’s benchmark for future luxury alternative materials.

Finally, in an exclusive collaboration, Bentley has used the by-products of wine-making to create the future of luxury eco-materials, creating a leather-like seating material which is 100 per cent bio-based.

Performance & Technology – Reimagining The Grand Tour

The Bentley EXP 100 GT is an extraordinary step on the road towards a carbon-free future.

Sustainable and intelligent, a battery electric powertrain, with intelligent power and charge management, will ensure that the Bentley EXP 100 GT is as powerful and exciting as its conventional predecessors.

Next Generation Traction Drive will enable maximum control via torque vectoring, applying 50 per cent increased power and 35 per cent less mass for more effective cornering. The battery system will power four motors that offer a 0-100 km (0-60 mph) time of less than 2.5 seconds, a top speed of 300 kph (186 mph) and maximum torque of 1,500 Nm.

Future battery technology will offer five times the conventional energy density, and charging the Bentley EXP 100 GT to 80 per cent of capacity will take only 15 minutes. Charging is automatically taken care of by the Bentley Personal Assistant. Weight will remain at a remarkably trim 1,900 kg and a range of 700 km (435 miles) will be possible.

To celebrate the drive, the Bentley EXP 100 GT is optionally autonomous. It manages the driving experience based on the external environment and passenger well-being. This might include maximising an exhilarating self-drive across mountain roads, or disengaging from a stressful, inner-city commute.

Bentley Personal Assistant can curate personal driving experiences, offering points of information along a route, journey suggestions, or available luxury experiences nearby.

Key to this are a range of features based on passenger well-being and comfort. These include Active Aero Wheels that dynamically adjust to deliver efficiency or maximum performance feel; Intelligent Pirelli Tyres that adapt their contact patches based on weather conditions or driver demand; Adaptable Biometric Seating that adapts to the driver mode, or swivels rearward with the steering wheel retracted away in autonomous mode.

The use of artificial intelligence with the Bentley Personal Assistant, combined with expert engineering in the Bentley EXP 100 GT, has redefined the future of Grand Touring. AI manifests itself in the cabin as a ‘feeling’ light and is controlled through gestures and touch.

An example of gesture control can be demonstrated by a child looking out of the Bentley EXP 100 GT cabin at clouds, then pulling down content inside the vehicle through a gesture that explains what they are seeing to them. AI thus creates a joint, meaningful learning experience that can also be shared.

AI is controlled via an illuminated Cumbria Crystal centre piece and control centre, set in three layers. Cumbria Crystal, the last producer of completely hand-blown and hand-cut crystal in England.

A cartridge system in the centre of the Bentley EXP 100 GT delivers luxury items and services. The main features are a Purified Water Decanter and Crystal Glasses; a Cartridge Delivery System that can deliver items from an under the bonnet storage area into the cabin itself; and World Class Services, that could receive items requested by the car’s AI and delivered from luxury service partners.

Centenary Celebrations

July 10, 2019 marks Bentley’s 100th year – an extraordinary milestone achieved by only a few companies. A year-long series of special activities have been taking place, with celebrations at events around the world.

They showcase Bentley’s motoring evolution over the last 100 years, highlighting its global success today and the exciting future of innovation ahead.

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Short Reviews – The Dead-Star Rover, by Robert Abernathy

The Dead-Star Rover, by Robert Abernathy, appeared in the Winter 1949 issue of Planet Stories. It can (and should) be read here at Archive.org.

It’s been rare that I’ve been as excited about a story as I have been for The Dead-Star Rover. But I’m back to reading Planet Stories, again, and I did not realize how much I’d missed them, nor just how much a cut above that Planet Stories really was in the mid-to-late 40s, after I’d gone for so long reading other pulps. Don’t get me wrong, aside from that terrible desert of Astounding, I’ve read and reviewed a handful of really good stories, but this… This is angelic choirs in the heaven, lights shining down… Gameable content, my friends!

I could talk about how The Dead-Star Rover blows up modern memes of the pulps, focus on its progressive aspects, like the fact that the couple is interracial and the protagonist is a dark-skinned man with a pale white dame (run in the issue right after Stark’s second adventure), but I’d rather talk about the fact that this is easily adaptable as a Mad Max-esque setting for something like Car Wars.

It’s all here in The Dead-Star Rover! Different races that are largely delineated along the lines of what tech they’ve scavenged and by the vehicles they are using. On this post-apocalyptic world, self-sustaining machine vehicles roam the barren lands, sometimes autonomously, other times piloted. The tale begins with one of the “terrapin” who has just taken out the aero of one of the bird people—its pilot is a beautiful, if brash, woman. Losing her aero has doomed the girl among her people, sparing her life has doomed the man among his.

But onto the setting write-up!

Panzer-jacking the Panzer-Folk

Terrapin

The Terrapin are a nomadic people who drive large and fast rovers (their “Terrapin” from which they get their names). The Terrapin spend much of their time hunting alone or in packs; their prey are large autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles that they use for parts to repair their own vehicles. They often prey upon the Trailer-folk. Their vehicles have speeds of 100-150 mph; their living compartments contain room for immediate family. The Terrapin are a proud people but with many traditions and taboos, particularly against outsiders. The Terrapin are preyed upon the Bird-Peoples and Buzzards.

Trailer-Folk

The Trailer-Folk live in large autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles. They travel in large “herds” for safety. The Trailers themselves have large space for families and replication technology that allows for a great many sundry items and food to be created from minerals and organics that the vehicles continuously harvest. Life among the Trailers is bountiful, but this makes them an easy target for the many other hunter cultures.

Bird-People

Living in Aeries high in mountains and on plateaus overlooking the wastes, the Bird-People have very fast, agile and powerful aircraft; each Bird has their own “aero” which they must earn. Loss of one’s aero is a great dishonor. Birds who have lost their aero have only a life of servitude to look forward to, if another Aerie will take them in. The Bird-People believe themselves to be the master race of earth and once they successfully subdue the inferior terrestrial peoples, they can set upon the task of rebuilding civilization.

Panzer-Folk

The Panzer-Folk live inside gigantic war tanks. These tanks have extremely effective long-range guns and anti-weapons. Additionally, they are known for their advanced radar capabilities and are the bane of both air and land craft, however they may be snuck up on by foot or from below. The Panzer-folk are primarily nocturnal hunters, and in the early pre-dawn hours will seek out safe terrain where they may defend themselves against air attacks and visibility to take out any ground attackers at a distance. Panzer-folk are solitary hunters, and each Panzer is capable of sustaining a small family.

Mole-People

Very little is known about the Mole-People, except that they have powerful drilling rigs that give them access to underground mineral and organic deposits while keeping them safe from both aerial and terrestrial hunting bands.

Pill-Box People

The Pill-Box People have traded mobility for safety. They live in large fortifications with potent gun emplacements that can keep most foes at bay, unless a very large and well organized force were to co-ordinate an attack against them. The Pill-Box people are believed to be very resource-wealthy (moreso than the Trailer-folk), with many of the supplies, weaponry, food, and resource harvesting capabilities and technologies that the other tribes covet. It’s all there for the taking, but it’s VERY well defended!

Buzzards

Buzzards are the scourge of the air. While the Bird people prefer fixed-wing craft, the Buzzards fly all manner of rotary and directional jet vehicles. Contraindicative of their name, the Buzzards don’t scavenge but actively hunt and destroy, often for the thrill of it. They’ve been known to use heavy weaponry and bombs in their raids, sometimes even resorting to chemical warfare when they really want a win.

Ship People

Those who lived on the ships were least affected when the bombs went off. They had plenty of food in the seas and access to much of the old technology. These were likely the descendants of the world’s great navies, and through discipline and perseverance (plus not having to deal with the terrestrial squabbles of the other folk) were able to preserve, recover and advance. Like the Bird people, they hope to re-unite the world, only they hope to do so not as the race of ship-people, but as the race of Men. The Ship People have aerial vehicles, which they have used to observe and make contact with other tribes. Additionally, they have tele-imaging capabilities which allow them to safely project images of themselves among potentially hostile contacts. The Ship-People have recently developed EMP technology which they hope to use to quell the fighting among the vehicle tribes long enough to establish peace.

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Sky high: can flying taxis transform public transport?

Sky high: can flying taxis change public transport?Posted: 10 April 2018 | Alex Zosel(Volocopter), Luke Antoniou(Intelligent Transport)| No remarks As cities end up being ever more busy, the question sticks around

over transportation authorities and travelers alike– exactly what is the future of metropolitan movement? Intelligent Transportation’s Luke Antoniou talked to Alex Zosel, co-Founder of Volocopter GmbH, at IT-TRANS to learn more about this ingenious start-up company’s response to that very question.What are Volocopter’s aims and how can such a service be embraced by a city?Our objective is to deliver a complicated system for urban mobility in

the third measurement. We are discussing working not only on aircraft, specifically

our vertically launching, completely electrical multicopters, however on a full mobility system. Imagine you have hundreds of cable television cars and trucks in your city, just without the cables. We wish to provide the physical and digital infrastructure for air taxis, and we aim to be a global player in this field of mobility in the future.We do not desire the Volocopter to just be a toy for the wealthy. We pursue it to be a mass transit implies for everybody to utilize. It has to be cost effective, and with this in mind, we have actually computed it not to be much more expensive than lots of other kinds of transport.The most essential thing in actually getting our innovation into the city is to acquire the approval and trust of the people living there. Put really merely, if individuals don’t like it, they won’t use it. It has to be a comfy

means of travel, comfy getting into and out of the airplanes, and especially while flying– even in poor weather condition and windy conditions, we desire individuals to be able to use the Volocopter for travel every day. Another consideration is the noise level; it needs to be quiet. Individuals on the street need to not be able to hear it. We are working hard in all these fields.We are forward thinkers, always looking ahead. I initially had these ideas for future travel in 2011, and yet when we speak of them today they’re already mainstream. It’s remarkable that things are developing so quickly. Not just is the technology progressing quickly, however so are the understandings of the authorities, of the companies, of individuals. Flying Cabs are accepted as a future that will come. In 2011 when we started, our co-Founder & Chief Software Advisor, Stephan Wolf, was convinced that it was possible to raise a human off the ground electrically powered, but that was simply a clinical interest. We wrote air travel history with our first flight in 2011, making the difficult possible and now, air taxis are sort of mainstream already. People know they will come. There are substantial, big companies investing in this– our shareholders consist of Daimler and Intel. It’s not a concern of if it’s coming, but when its coming.We never ever believed that we ‘d show this aircraft here [at IT-TRANS], in our house town of Karlsruhe, Germany. About 400m behind the reasonable halls is the field where the VC1 was flown for the very first time! In the dm arena the VC200 had its very first indoor flight, so this is a historic location for us. While the Volocopter is being discussed worldwide, we are not acknowledged as much here in our house town, as we do not make a great deal of noise about it. Today is the very first time we were discussed in the regional papers. For us it’s an honour to stay here and provide this to the world.In regards to area, undoubtedly your business is based in Karlsruhe. You have actually discussed that it’s not your primary objective to roll it out here, so which place(s) are you looking at?In Dubai for instance we have this test trial where we are working to specify the specifications for air taxis and the digital facilities together with the authorities. The majority of individuals have actually found out about this particular job, but we are also talking with lots of other cities who are interested. Certainly, every mega city worldwide wants to be among the leaders in mobility. They all have the same discomfort points– you can’t construct more roads, or bridges, or tunnels, however cities have to offer more mobility and can only offer it in the ‘third dimension’. We have a great deal of calls and meetings from authorities of cities. Our customers are authorities. This is uncommon for a start-up business. Typically it is the regulators who are halting brand-new technologies, attempting to restrict exactly what you can do, however for us they are the ones who are pressing forward. Lots of city authorities are really convinced by the safety and security elements of the Volocopter, especially as a self-governing system– once it is fully established and accredited to a standard like in industrial air travel, it is truly safe.Previously when we spoke with the media, we talked about taking it sluggish, saying that we needed the steps like those seen in self-governing driving, i.e. levels one to five, and we looked at that. Last year, prior to we presented for the first time at the AERO aviation fair in Friedrichshafen, we revealed that we could fly autonomously. 2 weeks later we had the Dubai RTA sitting at our table to talk about test flights there.It’s outstanding that there’s that belief from those who would in fact execute it, that the demand is there already … We have a great deal of enablers around us who support the Volocopter job. They are authorities, and individuals who are incorporating brand-new systems in clever cities. We are happy to be leaders, not only for developing the Volocopter and flying the first qualified autonomous air taxi, however likewise changing state of minds. We are making flying cars and trucks an actual truth. Karlsruhe is a hub for mobility in the world. It has actually seen numerous popular movement developments from the bike to the cars and truck, so we remain in great company In regards to city implementation, what

type of facilities is needed?We’re talking about two different type of infrastructure essential for flying taxis The first is digital infrastructure, so it has to do with the air traffic management( ATM )systems we require for the lower airspace. It has to link drones flying, air taxis, the rescue helicopters, whatever in this air space. There are a lot of players on the planet dealing with ATMs for the lower airspace today. We are working together, for instance, with the RTA in Dubai to discuss what the parameters are for an airplane to be part of a city traffic system. When we flew in Dubai, there wasa big screen

showing the ATM of the Emirates, so you saw the position of every airliner, and the Volocopter was integrated in real time. It is a big learning curve, testing and executing the components to understand ways to run such a system.The other topic is the physical infrastructure: landing and take-off lots, spaces for charging and altering batteries. Our company believe strongly in swapping batteries as it permits the system to run faster.Another question is where these airplanes will be when they’re not in the air. We do not believe passengers must wait on top of a building in bad weather to get into and out of the aircraft. We require other services for this. We also have a great deal of other concepts, concerning the facilities however it is not all set simply yet.We envisage having centers. Hubs will encompass the entire facilities, for charging, battery switching, and maintenance, it will all be performed right there.

When executing the Volocopter in your public transportation system, you will start with a couple of these centers in the city and then grow from there. Once you have a network of these hubs you will add on-demand ports. These are inexpensive landing areas for companies, for stores, for organisations to have access to Volocopters at their head office. The centers are the heart of the system, and the ports permit people to take a trip door-to-door. It’s a chance to create a system that can grow in the city, that can begin with a few ports and after that grow to a network of 40, 60, 80 centers depending on what individuals desire to have. It’s extremely easy to see how it might grow in an existing city. It’s about developing existing facilities instead of developing something new.What do you think, from a guest viewpoint, is the most essential aspect?I would say with certainty that the most important thing to people is security. We have to have the trust of individuals if we want to become their favourite methods of transportation. Equally, you could specify that the authorities would not allow such a system if it wasn’t entirely safe. Their interest in certifying Volocopter speaks volumes.Imagine a situation where you have 1,000 of these airplane in the air and there is a security alert– you will have the capability to ground all these airplane to a safe location in simply a few minutes. These are all topics you require to think about when building a flying taxi system.The FAA 2012 Flight Safety Report, which reports and offers statistics regarding all the accidents that have taken place involving airplane, particularly helicopters, positively praised the safety capacity of the Volocopter in comparison to current helicopters on the market.

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the third measurement. We are discussing working not only on aircraft, specifically

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