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Vertical Aerospace “Wins Notable Accolade at ATI’s 2024 Aerospace Technology & Innovation Awards” 

UK-based Ver­ti­cal Aero­space was pre­sent­ed last week with the ‘Shap­ing the Future Award’ by Britain’s Aero­space Tech­nol­o­gy Insti­tute at the Tech­nol­o­gy & Inno­va­tion Awards 2024, reports a press release. 

This acco­lade “cel­e­brates zero-car­bon emis­sions tech­nol­o­gy being devel­oped in the UK for future com­mer­cial air­craft types and which rep­re­sents a step change in UK capa­bil­i­ty in this area,” explains the release. “Ver­ti­cal won the award for its cut­ting-edge bat­tery sys­tem for eVTOL air­craft.” 

Vertical’s aim is to devel­op a high-per­for­mance bat­tery sys­tem specif­i­cal­ly to pow­er com­mer­cial air­craft. Work­ing with Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty and Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege London’s Elec­tro­chem­i­cal Inno­va­tion Lab, the com­pa­ny has pro­duced a bat­tery that is light­weight and able to deliv­er peak pow­er of 1.4MW and rapid­ly charge. The bat­tery sys­tem was unveiled in July with Vertical’s lat­est full-scale VX4 pro­to­type.

The release con­tin­ues, “This inno­va­tion is set to reshape the eVTOL land­scape and pro­vide a blue­print for broad­er appli­ca­tions across aero­space, auto­mo­tive, and renew­able ener­gy sec­tors.” 

Lau­ra Cuss, Pro­gram Direc­tor of the Hydro­gen Capa­bil­i­ty Net­work and Chair of the Judg­ing Pan­el, com­ment­ed, “Ver­ti­cal Aero­space is ‘shap­ing the future’ for the UK by hold­ing a strong posi­tion in not only this new mar­ket seg­ment for eVTOLs, but also the wider bat­tery elec­tric air­craft mar­ket with high poten­tial for spillover and col­lab­o­ra­tion with many oth­er sec­tors.” 

She con­tin­ued, “The com­pa­ny has placed a strong focus on devel­op­ing the UK sup­ply chain as well as cre­at­ing high val­ue jobs, while lead­ing the charge in the devel­op­ment of the reg­u­la­to­ry regime for the eVTOL sec­tor.” Adding, “This work is enhanc­ing the UK’s attrac­tive­ness and posi­tion­ing it in a com­pet­i­tive glob­al mar­ket, mak­ing them a very wor­thy win­ner of the Award.”

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The judg­ing pan­el, chaired by Lau­ra Cuss, Pro­gram Direc­tor of the Hydro­gen Capa­bil­i­ty Net­work, unan­i­mous­ly chose Ver­ti­cal as the win­ner. The award was pre­sent­ed to Michael Cer­ven­ka, Chief Com­mer­cial and Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer of Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, at the ATI Con­fer­ence 2024 held at the ICC Wales on 8–9th Octo­ber. 

Cer­ven­ka, remarked, “Our inno­va­tion in this area is not only cru­cial for the future of avi­a­tion, but also sets the stage for wider inno­va­tion across mul­ti­ple indus­tries and is a space the UK can lead in glob­al­ly, cre­at­ing high­ly skilled jobs and fuelling eco­nom­ic growth.”

He con­tin­ued,  “As we begin Phase 2 of test­ing, which will see the VX4 air­craft under­go pilot­ed thrust-borne flight tests, this award is a strong endorse­ment of our efforts to shape the future of elec­tric avi­a­tion and change the way we trav­el.” 

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https://vertical-aerospace.com/

(Top image: Lau­ra Cuss, Michael Cer­ven­ka)

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