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PODCAST: ZEVA’s Stephen Tibbitts discusses company’s latest eVTOL design and the personal mobility market

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is now live! This time, we were joined by Stephen Tib­bitts, founder, chair­man and CEO of ZEVA Aero.

ZEVA was found­ed in 2017 to com­pete in Boeing’s GoFly com­pe­ti­tion and then build a busi­ness on the back of that effort. ZEVA’s first vehi­cle is called Zero and the com­pa­ny believes it will trans­form the trans­porta­tion land­scape for mis­sion-crit­i­cal trav­el.

Tib­bitts is arguably the ear­li­est prog­nos­ti­ca­tor of eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy as proven in this NASA SBIR pro­pos­al from 2005. He has inspired work at NASA, Joby and many oth­er com­pa­nies work­ing in this are­na. He is an active par­tic­i­pant in NASA’s Trans­for­ma­tive Ver­ti­cal Flight Work­ing Groups 3 & 4: Defin­ing the roadmap to the future

In this episode, we hear from Stephen about the back­ground behind set­ting up ZEVA, which is his fifth start­up. The com­pa­ny was found­ed in 2017 to com­pete in Boe­ing’s GoFly com­pe­ti­tion, and Stephen talks about the ZEVA ZERO air­craft, and more recent­ly, the Z2.

We talk about the impor­tance of this tech­nol­o­gy for health­care and logis­tics, and find out from Stephen what the next few months has in store for ZEVA, as it embarks on fur­ther flight test­ing.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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