{"id":121841,"date":"2021-04-22T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ups-agrees-to-buy-electric-vertical-aircraft-to-speed-up-package-delivery-in-small-markets"},"modified":"2021-04-22T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:06:25","slug":"ups-agrees-to-buy-electric-vertical-aircraft-to-speed-up-package-delivery-in-small-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/ups-agrees-to-buy-electric-vertical-aircraft-to-speed-up-package-delivery-in-small-markets","title":{"rendered":"UPS agrees to buy electric vertical aircraft to speed up package delivery in small markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ups-agrees-to-buy-electric-vertical-aircraft-to-speed-up-package-delivery-in-small-markets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/UPS\" target=\"_blank\">United Parcel Service<\/a> is taking package delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement Wednesday, Atlanta-based UPS said it will test the eVTOLs for use in its Express Air delivery network, focusing on small and medium markets. The company will operate the eVTOLs under its Flight Forward division, which is also exploring drone delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The new type of aircraft, which looks like a cross between a plane and a helicopter, \u201cunlocks new business models that don\u2019t exist today,\u201d Bala Ganesh, vice president of the UPS Advanced Technology Group, told CNBC. \u201cFor example, you can see a future where it\u2019s carrying, let\u2019s say 1000 pounds, 1500 pounds to rural hospitals,\u201d and landing on a helipad instead of an airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Parcel Service is taking package delivery to new heights, literally, with the purchase of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta Technologies. In an announcement Wednesday, Atlanta-based UPS said it will test the eVTOLs for use in its Express Air delivery network, focusing on small and medium markets. The company will operate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}