Volocopter, a pioneer in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), announced its commitment to launch air taxi services in Singapore within the next three years. The German company has been working for two years, in close collaboration with the Economic Development Board of Singapore (EDB) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), to make air taxi services a reality in the Southeast Asian city-state.
Volocopter will be conducting comprehensive tests, flight trials, evaluations, and certification before regulatory approval to commence commercial air taxi operations can be granted.
Florian Reuter, CEO of Volocopter, says: “Singapore is renowned for its leading role in adapting and living new technologies. Our successful cooperation with EDB, MOT, and CAAS on our previous flight has shown that there is no better place in Asia to launch our electric air taxi services than in Singapore. The city’s research institutes conducting R&D play an integral part in this. Topics like route validation for autonomous operations, material science, and research regarding battery technology are very important for our long-term business success.”
Mr. Tan Kong Hwee, Executive Vice President, EDB, adds: “Urban Air Mobility is an emerging area within the broader mobility sector, which we have identified as a growth industry for Singapore. Singapore is an important regional testbed for autonomous cars, electric vehicles, and Urban Air Mobility, including the successful test flight by Volocopter in 2019. We are glad that Volocopter has chosen Singapore to anchor its commercial and R&D activities. This will help build new capabilities for our mobility ecosystem and create many exciting opportunities for Singapore.”
Mr. Tan Kah Han, Senior Director (Unmanned Systems Group) of CAAS, comments: “In this new area of Urban Air Mobility, we look forward to continue working with Volocopter. This gives us the opportunity to co-create regulations and technologies with the industry, facilitating innovation to enable a future mode of transportation for Singapore.”
n October 2019, Volocopter completed the historic air taxi demonstration flight in the heart of Singapore over the Marina Bay area.
Founded in 2011, Volocopter has 200 employees and raised a total of 122 million euro in equity.
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