Nicolas Zart
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Electric Aircraft Pilot Training Is Arriving
Quantum Air and OSM Aviation Group just announced an electric aircraft pilot training partnership. OSM Aviation Academy will conduct the Quantum-branded pilot training program according to FAA commercial standards. Electric urban air mobility (UAM) is taking shape one step at a time → Read More
NIO EV Sales Up — Strong Community Backs The Startup
NIO has released its delivery figures for December 2019. With deliveries of 3,170 vehicles in December 2019, including 2,537 ES6s and 633 ES8s, the cumulative deliveries of ES8 and ES6 have reached 31,913, spelling good news for the company as it closes a tumultuous year → Read More
Hyundai & Uber Elevate Unveil Autonomous Pods, eVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem At CES
Hyundai Motor Company and Uber Elevate showed us a fairly complete urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle, autonomous pods, and a hub ecosystem that fits with Uber Elevate’s air taxi model at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) → Read More
5 New Things Byton Is Unveiling At CES 2020
Byton is stepping up its digital life by unleashing more of the potential its M-Byte has to offer at CES 2020. The company made a strong point to deliver more on its future user experience with a wave of content partners that spells the beginning of more to come → Read More
ASR Says It Has A Parachute For Every eVTOL Aircraft
Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) — a leading parachute safety company that won one of Revolution.Aero’s competitions earlier this year — says it has a parachute system that will work with eVTOL aircraft, even at low altitudes. I recently spoke with Larry Williams, CEO of ASR, on how the company’s parachute technology works, its application for eVTOL aircraft, and public perception → Read More
NIO's Q3 Financials Are In
Fresh from Shenzhen where NIO unveiled its new EC6 and an updated ES8 at its packed NIO Day, the company also announced its Q3 earnings before the end of the calendar year. Despite a tumultuous 2019 in which NIO maneuvered the end of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) subsidies and a battery recall (partly due to the battery company), it managed to increase sales towards the end of the year → Read More
NIO Unveils EC6 In Front Of Cheering Home Crowd
CleanTechnica was in the middle of a wild crowd of NIO fans tonight waiting for the rumors to be confirmed, and we weren't disappointed. The new NIO EC6 electric crossover, presumably aimed at the Model Y market, was revealed with fanfare. That joins the ES6 and → Read More
Last CleanTechnica Electric Air Mobility News Roundup Of The Year!
Here’s more urban air mobility (UAM) electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) and electric fixed-wing aircraft news for the last week of → Read More
From Electric Cars To Electric Airplanes, The End Of A Decade
2019 is drawing to a close, so let's take stock of a decade of green mobility progress that started with a handful of startups a decade ago → Read More
Harbour Air Makes Aviation History With 1st Electric Seaplane Flight — CleanTechnica Interview
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, aviation is not only undergoing its third revolution, with electricity this time, but history was made on Tuesday, December 10, in Vancouver, Canada, when Harbour Air took off in a seaplane using electricity. The maiden electric seaplane flight is a sweet wink at commercial aviation history, which started with seaplanes → Read More
Aerospace Leaders Working To Predict & Create The Future Of Urban Air Mobility Management
Predicting the future use of airspace — not knowing how it will be used, what types of aircraft will be made, and how to manage it safely — is hair raising to most. Major companies like Airbus and Dassault Systèmes, among others, are simulating our unknown electric air mobility future. But what does the future really hold → Read More
Lilium Jet Accomplishes 3-Minute Test Flight
The Munich-based aviation startup Lilium Jet has been busy and recently released a video of its successful 3-minute test flight on October 1st. Lilium tested controllability with banked turns in transition flight needed before certification and commercialization → Read More
Xpeng In-House Autonomous Vehicle Technology Keeps Prices Down
I recently met with Dr. Xinzhou Wu, Vice President of Autonomous Driving at Xpeng Motors, to learn more about the company’s autonomous vehicle (AV) bottom-up approach, part of its long-term strategic plan. Dr. Wu is in charge of overall strategy and technical planning of the business and team management for Xpeng's global autonomous driving R&D center in Silicon Valley, California → Read More
Rolls-Royce Electric Airplane Unveiled & Ready To Race
The Rolls-Royce ACCEL is one slippery and sleek design, ready to duke it out in the soon-to-start Air Race → Read More
CleanTechnica Electric Air Mobility Roundup — December 2019
Keep your eyes on the ball because electric aviation has taken off with such a steep angle of attack (AoA) that it makes the electric car world look like a snail race → Read More
CleanTechnica Tests The Electric Folding Gocycle e-Bike
It's been a while since I tested an electric bicycle, and when Gocycle asked me to see what they did on their new GX, I jumped on the chance to ride this fun and cool futuristic e-bike. Here's to a fun four weeks spent on the new Gocycle GX that is every bit worth its price → Read More
BAE Systems & Jaunt Air Mobility Collaborate on Electric Energy Management Systems for Urban Air Mobility Platforms
I met with Yesh Premkumar, Program Manager of Strategic Development Controls & Avionics Solutions at BAE, regarding the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) the company signed with Jaunt Air Mobility. I learned a lot about what BAE has to bring to the electric urban air mobility (UAM) table → Read More
NIO Power & Xpeng Motors Team Up On Battery Charging Service
Two of my favorite electric vehicle (EV) startups are teaming up, and that is good news for the industry. NIO and Xpeng Motors are teaming up in China, and it should raise a sense of urgency in the West for more EV mobility companies to collaborate → Read More
eVTOL Aircraft Developers Will Meet At The World's Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference
January is always a tough month for us, with CES kicking off less than a week after New Year's Eve, and now the Transformative Vertical Flight 2020 Conference is two weeks later → Read More
World's 1st Commercial Electric Seaplane Takes Off!
Harbour Air just completed a world's first, the successful maiden commercial electric seaplane flight, which took off today! Stay tuned, as I will speak to the company tomorrow to find out more. In the meantime, enjoy this → Read More