{"id":122702,"date":"2021-05-19T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/voloconnect-expanding-volocopters-coverage-of-the-urban-air-mobility-ecosystem"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:22:41","slug":"voloconnect-expanding-volocopters-coverage-of-the-urban-air-mobility-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/voloconnect-expanding-volocopters-coverage-of-the-urban-air-mobility-ecosystem","title":{"rendered":"VoloConnect: Expanding Volocopter\u2019s Coverage of the Urban Air Mobility Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ROJ76foyihs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b> Bruchsal\/Munich, 17 May 2021 <\/b> \u2013 <b> Today, Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), unveiled its newest aircraft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocopter.com\/solutions\/voloconnect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoloConnect<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/ebace.aero\/2021-connect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EBACE Connect<\/a>. This electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) is designed to connect suburbs to cities and complements the company\u2019s existing family of aircraft for the intra-city mission. VoloConnect\u2019s distinctive hybrid lift and push design is expected to achieve certification within the next 5 years.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the capacity to travel longer distances, VoloConnect joins Volocopter\u2019s aircraft family and extends the company\u2019s UAM ecosystem coverage to the suburbs. The new aircraft will be seamlessly integrated into Volocopter\u2019s existing portfolio of UAM ecosystem solutions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocopter.com\/solutions\/volodrone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> VoloDrone<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocopter.com\/solutions\/volocity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> VoloCity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocopter.com\/solutions\/voloport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> VoloPort,<\/a> and the digital platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volocopter.com\/solutions\/voloiq\/\"> VoloIQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruchsal\/Munich, 17 May 2021 \u2013 Today, Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), unveiled its newest aircraft, VoloConnect, at EBACE Connect. This electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) is designed to connect suburbs to cities and complements the company\u2019s existing family of aircraft for the intra-city mission. VoloConnect\u2019s distinctive hybrid lift and push [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122702","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}