PODCAST: Dr Adriano Di Pietro on AMSL Aero’s Journey to Hydrogen-Powered eVTOL Flight

Our next pod­cast episode is now live! This week, we were delight­ed to be joined by Dr. Adri­ano Di Pietro, CEO of AMSL Aero.

With near­ly two decades of glob­al expe­ri­ence, Dr. Di Pietro shares how his ear­ly fas­ci­na­tion with flight and a career span­ning defense, auto­mo­tive, and autonomous vehi­cle tech­nolo­gies led him to the fore­front of advanced air mobil­i­ty.

He dis­cuss­es AMSL Aero’s mis­sion to build Ver­tia, a hydro­gen-elec­tric tilt-wing eVTOL designed to con­nect Australia’s far-flung regions while dra­mat­i­cal­ly cut­ting avi­a­tion emis­sions.

Unlike most eVTOL devel­op­ers focused on urban air taxis, AMSL’s empha­sis is on long-range, zero-emis­sion region­al flight—addressing Australia’s unique geog­ra­phy and the essen­tial role avi­a­tion plays in deliv­er­ing health­care, freight, and con­nec­tiv­i­ty to remote areas.

The con­ver­sa­tion explores how hydro­gen pow­er unlocks range and effi­cien­cy, AMSL’s roadmap toward type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and a 2030 com­mer­cial launch, and the company’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with inter­na­tion­al part­ners and the Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment to devel­op the hydro­gen ecosys­tem.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is avail­able on whichev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.