Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation is an American venture-backed aerospace company and developer of VTOL personal air vehicles designed for air taxi services. The company provides airframe design, fabrication, aerodynamic analysis and electric motor design.[2]

Joby Aviation LLC
Startup
IndustryAerospace
Headquarters
Santa Cruz, CA[2]
,
U.S.
Key people
Founder/CEO: JoeBen Bevirt[2](Gorillapod creator)
Executive Chairman: Paul Sciarra (Pinterest co-founder)[3]
ProductsElectric aircraft
Number of employees
170 (Oct 2018)[4]
Websitewww.jobyaviation.com

The startup was founded in 2009 and holds offices in Santa Cruz, CA and San Carlos, CA.[5][6]

History

Joby worked on the NASA LEAPTech and X-57 Maxwell projects. 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.[7]

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]

On January 15, 2020, Joby Aviation announced additional venture funding of $590 million and a partnership with Toyota.[8] It plans to use the money to develop a large flying-car factory in Marina, California.[9]

See also

References
  1. Graham Warwick (Jul 19, 2017). "NASA Pushing Ahead With Electric X-plane". Aviation Week Network.
  2. "Joby Aviation LLC: company profile". Bloomberg.
  3. "Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100 Million". Bloomberg. 1 Feb 2018.
  4. "Joby Expands in Monterey County". Electric VTOL News. 5 Oct 2018.
  5. "Joby Aviation". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  6. "Joby Aviation". www.jobyaviation.com. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  7. Graham Warwick (Aug 11, 2017). "Inside The eVTOL Explosion". Aviation Week & Space Technology.
  8. Hawkins, Andrew J. (2020-01-15). "Toyota makes a big bet on secretive flying taxi startup Joby Aviation". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  9. https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/joby-aviation-plans-to-build-a-massive-factory-for-flying/article_c4bf7c9e-380a-11ea-8873-ab86fbd1e784.html
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