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Gulf States Grasp Advanced Air Mobility Opportunities

Archer Aviation and Lilium will both display eVTOL aircraft at the Dubai Airshow

Lilium's eVTOL aircraft could operate in Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabian Airlines plans to buy 100 of the six-passenger Lilium Jet eVTOL to deploy on a new network of short regional scheduled services. (image: Lilium)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

November 8, 2023

Even by the standards of the precocious advanced air mobility (AAM) sector, Saudi Arabia’s Neom project looks pretty “out-there.” With deep-pocketed government backing, the idea calls for the development of a vast new urban conurbation in the northwest of the kingdom where the desert meets the Red Sea, including an “industrial city” called Oxagon and a residential community called The Line that will extend for just over 100 miles and house a population of 1 million people.

Adding to the futuristic theme, developers say Saudi Arabia’s fossil fuel wealth will allow Neom to be powered entirely from renewable energy sources, with “zero cars, zero streets, and zero carbon emissions.” In place of ground vehicles, people and things would move around in new eVTOL aircraft now in development with an anticipated range of between 20 and 150 miles.

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