Dominant Design in Urban Air Mobility

Technical Manager of Project Talaria

Philipp Essle

Overview

•Who am I? •Will there be a Dominant Design in UAM? •Different types of UAM

•Who are the players?

•What is the current standard?

• Interview Results

•Open Questions

Who am I?

• Technical Manager of Project Talaria

• World smallest electric helicopter capable of carrying one person.

Will there be a Dominant Design in UAM?

What are the categories?

•Drone – no wings – tilt to fly forward

• Low range

• Lift + cruise – wings – independent system for takeoff

• Mechanical simplicity

• High drag after a certain range

• Tilt wing

• Inefficient take-off and landing

• Efficient long range

•Helicopter

Who are the players?

Who are the players?

150 Companies

Fixed Wing Pusher Fan17%

Fixed Wing Tilt Propulsion

17%

Tilt quad/hexa compter33%

Tilt wing eVTOL25%

Helicopter 8%

CATEGORIES

Who are the Big players and what are they doing?

The Current Standard for UAM

Model Range (km)

Payload Capacity (kg)

Cruise Speed (km/h)

Cost (dollars)

#Seats

AW109 Power

930 1260 282 6.3M 6

Esquilo B4 H130

610 1050 240 3.3M 6

Esquilo B3 H125

596 880 222 2.5M 5

Colibri H120

770 755 204 2M 4

Robinson R44 Raven II

620 490 185 450,000 3Avantto Fleet

Current Business Models

• Voom

– Airbus company testing the business model

– Fixed trips from specific locations mostly leading to the main airport

– Book one hour in advance

• Avantto

– 400 active users

– More than 1.400 take-offs per month

– More than 6.000 flight hrs per year

– Colibri H120 – Eurocopter

– Initial buy in of 50,000.00 then 2,000.00 a month + 7 euros per minute of flight

Range –a condition for market success?

A question of efficiency over distance and speed?

Range of Multi-copters

• 26km range

gives access to

most of the

city and 2 out

of 3 airports

• Most business

districts have

been covered

Interview Relevant Factors : Andre Stein (Head of Strategy at EmbraerX) & Stephan Baur (Partner Roland Berger)

Criteria Comment

Cost of Operation

Infrastructure How easily can it integrate with existing infrastructure (refueling/charging stations as well)

Support Service Quality How quickly can you fix the machine, how much does that cost?

Reliability For company and end user

Impact to Community Pilot

Cost to third party, noise, emissions

How is it to fly, training.

Performance Flexibility, can it entertain multiple use case scenarios

Interior User Experience Accessibility

Will vary per location Europe vs South AmericaTo larger portion of population.

Other Important Comments

• Short distance –efficiency for onboarding and offloading

• Purchasing power by nation/location varies (no one size fits all)

•Another transport option for people not a substitute

Questions that still need to be answered?

• Is this a service battle?

• Is there any value in also analyzing the different business models?