Electric Aircraft Seek to be Part of Business Aviation's Future

Several companies developing electric and hybrid-electric eVTOL and eSTOL aircraft are exhibiting at the 2022 EBACE show in Geneva.

Lilium expects its seven-passenger eVTOL aircraft to connect communities from networks of purpose-built vertiports. (Image: Lilium)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

April 20, 2022

Much like mainstream business aviation, the fast-emerging advanced air mobility (AAM) sector is committed to delivering more efficient ways of moving people and things from point A to point B. The presence of several developers of new electric aircraft this week at EBACE reinforces the impression that AAM pioneers may be seeking a closer relationship with the business aviation community and its customer base.

More generally, Europe could be among the early adopters of the new mode of transportation, with work underway already to prepare for commercial air-taxi AAM operations in countries such as France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. The first taste of this new reality could be in place in time for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, for which 30 companies, including several eVTOL aircraft developers, are now working to be ready to launch air-taxi services around the French capital through the Re.Invent Air Mobility Challenge.

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