DUBAI AIRSHOW 2023: Lilium Collaborates with Industrial Leader DENSO, Prepares “Production Ramp-Up of Jet’s Innovative Electric Engine”

Fur­ther Dubai Air­show news from Lil­i­um, with an announce­ment that the Ger­man-based eVTOL com­pa­ny has signed an agree­ment with mobil­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy and indus­tri­al leader DENSO, a For­tune 500 giant, for tech­ni­cal assis­tance in opti­mis­ing pro­duc­tion at scale of “the Lil­i­um Jet’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary elec­tric engine,” reports a press release. 

It states, “DENSO, a leader in pow­er­train elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and the world’s sec­ond largest auto­mo­tive parts provider by sales, will sup­port Lil­i­um in devel­op­ing equip­ment and tool­ing for an effi­cient, scal­able pro­duc­tion ramp-up and prepar­ing automa­tion for high-vol­ume pro­duc­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet engine and its sub­sys­tems.”

DENSO will be shar­ing close to 75 years of exper­tise with Lil­i­um to design reli­able, com­pet­i­tive and high-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es. DENSO is cur­rent­ly sup­ply­ing the sta­tor and rotor sub­sys­tems of the Lil­i­um Jet engine as part of an alliance with Hon­ey­well, a lead­ing aero­space sup­pli­er to Lil­i­um.

Images above Lil­i­um Jet: Rotor and Sta­tor (Cred­it: Lil­i­um)

Yves Yem­si, COO of Lil­i­um, com­ment­ed, “With DENSO’s sup­port, we move towards indus­tri­al­is­ing the engine assem­bly and look for­ward to cre­at­ing and imple­ment­ing scal­able solu­tions for high-vol­ume pro­duc­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet engine.”  

Koji Ishizu­ka, Senior Direc­tor Urban Air Mobil­i­ty at DENSO, added, “We aim to pow­er the shift towards safe, sus­tain­able and seam­less mobil­i­ty for all. Through our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Lil­i­um, we see the poten­tial to accel­er­ate this shift and wel­come the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sup­port the devel­op­ment of large-scale sus­tain­able region­al air mobil­i­ty.”

In Sep­tem­ber, Lil­i­um start­ed assem­bly of the first Lil­i­um Jet elec­tric engine at its facil­i­ty in Wessling, Ger­many. The first build is now com­plete. In the next phase, Lil­i­um Jet engines will be inte­grat­ed for fur­ther test­ing into the air­craft propul­sion mount­ing sys­tem, the flap struc­ture that forms the rear part of the wings and front canards. The Lil­i­um Jet e‑motor has been designed to deliv­er indus­try-lead­ing pow­er den­si­ty of over 100kW from a sys­tem weigh­ing just over 4kg.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.lilium.com

https://www.DENSO.com/global

(Top image: Lil­i­um)