Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation LLC
startup company
Industry Aerospace
Headquarters Santa Cruz, CA[2], U.S.
Key people
 Founder/CEO: JoeBen Bevirt[2](Gorillapod creator)
Executive Chairman: Paul Sciarra (Pinterest co-founder)[3]
Products Electric aircraft
Number of employees
 120[3]
Website www.jobyaviation.com

Joby Aviation is an American venture-backed aerospace company. A startup company with offices in Santa Cruz, CA and Redwood City, CA, Joby aims to deliver "safe and affordable" public air travel while "advancing the transition to sustainable transportation" to avoid costly and polluting traffic.[4] Joby Aviation provides airframe design, fabrication, aerodynamic analysis and electric motor design.[2]

History

Joby worked on the NASA "LEAPTech" X-57 Maxwell project.[4] It switched from its S2 two-seat tilt-prop concept, to the four-seat S4 with four props on the wing and two tilting props on the tail.[5]

On February 1, 2018, Joby Aviation announced it has raised its capital by $100 million in venture funding to $130 million, including from Intel Capital, Toyota AI Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, and Tesla/SpaceX backer Capricorn Investment Group. Joby intends to build a four passenger aircraft with a pilot, travelling 150 mi (240 km) on a single charge near-silently at a few thousand feet altitude, and 100 times quieter during takeoff and landing than a helicopter. It plans to mass-produce them to eventually operate a ride hailing service and be fully autonomous. [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Graham Warwick (Jul 19, 2017). "NASA Pushing Ahead With Electric X-plane". Aviation Week Network.
  2. 1 2 3 "Joby Aviation LLC: company profile". Bloomberg.
  3. 1 2 3 "Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100 Million". Bloomberg. 1 Feb 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Joby Aviation".
  5. ↑ Graham Warwick (Aug 11, 2017). "Inside The eVTOL Explosion". Aviation Week & Space Technology.
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