Joby Collaborates with Clay Lacy “to Bring First Electric Air Taxi Charger to Southern California”

Joby announced this week, it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Clay Lacy Avi­a­tion to install South­ern California’s first elec­tric air taxi charg­er at John Wayne Air­port (SNA) in Orange Coun­ty, reports a press release.

The instal­la­tion of elec­tri­cal infra­struc­ture to sup­port Joby’s Glob­al Elec­tric Avi­a­tion Charg­ing Sys­tem (GEACS) comes “as part of Clay Lacy’s planned USD100 mil­lion rede­vel­op­ment of its fixed-based oper­a­tor (FBO) ter­mi­nal at SNA, tar­get­ing com­ple­tion in mid-2025,” explains the release.

It con­tin­ues, “The GEACS charg­ing inter­face, which is already in use at Joby’s flight test cen­tre in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia and at Edwards Air Force Base, sup­ports the safe and effi­cient oper­a­tion of all elec­tric air­craft under devel­op­ment today, includ­ing Joby’s qui­et, emis­sions-free air taxi.” This instal­la­tion will estab­lish the site as a node in Joby’s South­ern Cal­i­for­nia air taxi net­work which is expect­ed to be one of the first to launch in the U.S.

JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby, com­ment­ed, “Today’s announce­ment marks a key moment on the path to deliv­er­ing our air taxi ser­vice in the Greater Los Ange­les area. The charg­ing tech­nol­o­gy we have devel­oped is opti­mised to sup­port our whole indus­try, from air taxis deliv­er­ing short range city flights to more con­ven­tion­al elec­tric air­craft fly­ing longer dis­tances.” Joby made the spec­i­fi­ca­tions for the uni­ver­sal charg­ing inter­face freely avail­able to the wider indus­try last Novem­ber to help accel­er­ate the tran­si­tion to clean flight.

Scott Cut­shall

Scott Cut­shall, SVP Strat­e­gy and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty at Clay Lacy Avi­a­tion, added, “Since our found­ing more than 50 years ago, Clay Lacy has been com­mit­ted to improv­ing lives for our com­mu­ni­ty, employ­ees, and clients, both lead­ing the indus­try on safe­ty and ser­vice while tak­ing action to reduce emis­sions in both our ground and air oper­a­tions. We’re excit­ed to be work­ing with Joby to install South­ern California’s first air taxi charg­er and we look for­ward to the greater con­ve­nience it will bring to the Orange Coun­ty com­mu­ni­ty with­out addi­tion­al noise or emis­sions.”

Clay Lacy’s all-new FBO devel­op­ment at John Wayne Air­port is expect­ed to be the first in the world to be Gold-cer­ti­fied by the Insti­tute for Sus­tain­able Infra­struc­ture (ISI), rein­forc­ing the company’s long­stand­ing com­mit­ment to lead­er­ship on sus­tain­abil­i­ty in avi­a­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

www.claylacy.com

(Top image: Joby Avi­a­tion)