Volocopter · Drones · 2022
Volocopter's winged, longer-range eVTOL (unveiled in 2021 as the VoloConnect and renamed VoloRegion in October 2022), meant to extend urban air mobility from the city core out to the suburbs. Its lift-plus-cruise layout uses six lift rotors on twin booms spanning tandem wings (a forward-swept front wing and a rear gull-wing/V-tail) for vertical takeoff, then two rear electric ducted fans for efficient winged forward flight - eight electric motors in all. It carries four passengers up to 100 km at a 180 km/h cruise (250 km/h top speed) with a 300-400 kg payload, on an all-electric battery-swap system, a carbon-fibre fuselage and retractable tricycle gear, using fly-by-wire controls (piloted first, autonomous later) with multiple redundant systems toward EASA SC-VTOL enhanced certification. Its prototype first flew in May 2022; the program's future is uncertain following Volocopter's 2025 insolvency and acquisition by Diamond Aircraft (Wanfeng).
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| Sub-type | Lift+Cruise eVTOL (regional air taxi) |
| Status | Development |
| Year | 2022 |
| Origin | Germany |
| Also known as | VoloConnect (renamed Oct 2022) |
| Weight | 950 kg |
| Frame | Carbon-fibre composite |
| Payload | 400 kg |
| Max speed | 83 m/s |
| Battery life | 100 minutes min |
| Max range | 100 km |
| Use cases | City-to-suburb regional air mobility, Air taxi |
| Made in | Germany |
