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Joby Bolsters California Manufacturing Facility, “Rolls Out Second eVTOL Aircraft From Production Line”

Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week, it has increased in size its Pilot Pro­duc­tion Line in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia, reports a press release. The expan­sion will more than dou­ble Joby’s man­u­fac­tur­ing foot­print at the Mari­na Munic­i­pal Air­port and is expect­ed to begin oper­a­tions next year.

Dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny to cel­e­brate this excit­ing devel­op­ment, Joby also show­cased a sec­ond pro­duc­tion pro­to­type air­craft, which has recent­ly rolled off the Line. The eVTOL is expect­ed to join Joby’s first pro­duc­tion pro­to­type at Edwards Air Force Base lat­er this year. Mean­while, two addi­tion­al craft are in final assem­bly.

The release explains, “The expand­ed facil­i­ty is designed to sup­port a tar­get pro­duc­tion rate of 25 air­craft per year and will also house a range of key oper­a­tions facil­i­ties, includ­ing an expand­ed pilot train­ing and flight sim­u­la­tion cen­tre as well as air­craft main­te­nance facil­i­ties that are designed to sup­port the scal­ing of Joby’s com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.”

JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby, remarked, “This facil­i­ty will play a foun­da­tion­al role in our future suc­cess and it is a priv­i­lege to once again be grow­ing our foot­print and work­force in Cal­i­for­nia.” 

He con­tin­ued, “I am grate­ful to the local com­mu­ni­ty and our many sup­port­ers who have advo­cat­ed on our behalf to reach this point and to Toy­ota for every­thing they con­tin­ue to do to make man­u­fac­tur­ing a suc­cess at Joby.” 

Out­side and Inside of Joby’s Mari­na Man­u­fac­tur­ing Facil­i­ty

The expan­sion is being fund­ed in part by the USD9.8 mil­lion Cal­i­for­nia Com­petes grant award­ed to Joby by the Governor’s Office of Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment (GO-Biz) last Novem­ber, to sup­port the Company’s con­tin­ued statewide expan­sion.

Bruce Del­ga­do, May­or of Mari­na, com­ment­ed, “We’re delight­ed to see Joby con­tin­ue to invest in expand­ing its pres­ence at Mari­na Munic­i­pal Air­port, pro­vid­ing high-tech jobs in clean man­u­fac­tur­ing that ben­e­fit the local com­mu­ni­ty. The com­pa­ny ben­e­fits all of our tri-coun­ty com­mu­ni­ty.”

Wendy Root-Askew, Mon­terey Coun­ty Super­vi­sor, added, “We’re thrilled to see Joby break ground on an expan­sion to their elec­tric air taxi fac­to­ry in Mari­na and we look for­ward to future oppor­tu­ni­ties to part­ner for the ben­e­fit of our local econ­o­my.”

The cer­e­mo­ny was attend­ed by local and region­al stake­hold­ers rep­re­sent­ing the city of Mari­na, Mon­terey Coun­ty, Mon­terey Bay DART, Mon­terey Bay Eco­nom­ic Part­ner­ship, Mujeres en Acción, and many oth­er organ­i­sa­tions that con­tin­ue to be instru­men­tal to Joby’s suc­cess, includ­ing Toy­ota Motor Cor­po­ra­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

(Top Image: Joby cel­e­brat­ed the planned expan­sion of its man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia, along­side Mari­na May­or Bruce Del­ga­do, Mon­terey Coun­ty Super­vi­sor Wendy Root-Askew, and Toy­ota Col­lab­o­ra­tion Lead Kiyoshi­ba Mase. (Pho­to: Busi­ness Wire))

(Oth­er Images: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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