Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft company Volocopter adds another dimension to its product portfolio with the new eVTOL, which will further extend its UAM ecosystem coverage from cities to suburban areas.
VoloConnect says that it will deliver safe, emission-free urban flight. It is already flight testing multiple scaled prototypes and will quickly progress with full-scale prototypes. The company’s team in Munich team has been working on the aircraft for over two years and already filed for several patents. Certification is planned for 2026.
The new eVTOL can transport up to four passengers yet features the compact aircraft layout necessary for urban missions. It will be able to travel long distances up to 100km cruising at 180 kmph. Using a hybrid lift and push design, it can achieve a top speed of 250 kmph.
Volocopter’s latest offering complements its existing family of aircraft for the intra-city mission: VoloDrone, VoloCity, VoloPort.
Florian Reuter, CEO, Volocopter, said, “VoloConnect embodies the next dimension of our mission to offer affordable, efficient, and sustainable flight mobility solutions for cities around the globe. Leveraging customer insights from our existing VoloCity and VoloDrone, VoloConnect’s capacity to support longer missions and higher payloads serves another strong growing market demand.” Thus far, it is the first and only eVTOL company to attain Design Organisation Approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), he added.
The company is developing a complete UAM, creating the ecosystem to connect all necessary components to offer electric flight in cities. It has partnerships with Aéroports de Paris, Microsoft Azure, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and several others. The new aircraft will seamlessly integrate into the company’s VoloIQ digital platform infrastructure to offer an additional mission for longer routes.