{"id":129587,"date":"2021-10-27T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/unique-aussie-box-wing-evtol-promises-radical-efficiency-and-huge-range"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:23:35","slug":"unique-aussie-box-wing-evtol-promises-radical-efficiency-and-huge-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/unique-aussie-box-wing-evtol-promises-radical-efficiency-and-huge-range","title":{"rendered":"Unique Aussie box-wing eVTOL promises radical efficiency and huge range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unique-aussie-box-wing-evtol-promises-radical-efficiency-and-huge-range2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian company AMSL Aero is preparing to start flight tests on what it claims will be the world\u2019s most efficient eVTOL design, and one of the most affordable. This box-wing beauty, the Vertiia, will travel up to 1,000 km (620 miles) on a tank of hydrogen, carrying five people or 500 kg (1,100 lb) of cargo at a quick cruise speed of 300 km\/h (186 mph).<\/p>\n<p>First <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/amsl-vertiia-australian-evtol-air-taxi-prototype\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">emerging from stealth mode late last year<\/a>, AMSL has a unique design, a prototype nearly ready to fly, and a target date of 2024 to get its aircraft certified and into production. Its small team has achieved an impressive amount on a shoestring budget, and it\u2019s now raising another round of funding to finance flight testing and pre-production as it moves toward the certification process.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to co-founder Andrew Moore to learn more about this fascinating aircraft, and how Vertiia plans to stand out in a global emerging eVTOL air taxi market that\u2019s starting to look comically crowded. What follows is an edited transcript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian company AMSL Aero is preparing to start flight tests on what it claims will be the world\u2019s most efficient eVTOL design, and one of the most affordable. This box-wing beauty, the Vertiia, will travel up to 1,000 km (620 miles) on a tank of hydrogen, carrying five people or 500 kg (1,100 lb) of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129587","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}