Airbus Helicopters will pause activities on the CityAirbus NextGen electric air taxi once its flight-test campaign is complete, believing key technologies are not ready to support the launch of a ...

Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even says the company will pause development of its CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft at the end of ...

Balkiz Sarihan, head of UAM for Airbus, said: “Rolling out CityAirbus NextGen for the very first time is an important and very real step that we are taking towards advanced air mobility and our ...

Airbus rolled out its CityAirbus NextGen prototype in March 2024. Credit: Airbus Airbus’s decision to wind down its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) program surprised the industry ...

Airbus Helicopters has led work on the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL program, but the company is now suspending efforts to bring the four-passenger model to market.

The decision to suspend the hydrogen project, dubbed ZEROe, comes a week after Airbus Helicopters scrapped plans to build an urban mobility vehicle called CityAirbus NextGen due to uncertainty ...

Composite materials are being successfully adopted for certification and low initial rate production (LRIP) in eVTOL aircraft variants today. As demand for eVTOL grows, vehicle build rates will ...