SMG Consulting: Latest AAM Infrastructure and eVTOL Indices Released

SMG Con­sult­ing under the lead­er­ship of Ser­gio Cecut­ta has just released up-to-date Advance Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Infra­struc­ture and eVTOL indices.

Infra­struc­ture

Two new ver­ti­port com­pa­nies are added:-

: Kook­ie­jar

: Sky­Scape

Two rat­ings are updat­ed with details on what aspects of the AAM Infra­struc­ture Readi­ness (AIR) Index led to these changes:-

: Deploy­ment — BlueN­est 5.8 from 5.2 

: Reg­u­la­tions — Sky­way 4.7 from 4.5  

Fund­ing for the fol­low­ing ver­ti­port com­pa­nies have been updat­ed:-   

: Urban-Air Port USD38.1 mil­lion from USD12.0 (Series A cap­i­tal raise)

: Sky­way USD1.5 mil­lion from USD1.1 (cap­i­tal raise)

Updates for OEM Part­ners:-

: Sky­way — Eve Hold­ing, Tra­verse Aero

Updates for Entry into Ser­vice (EIS) Cities:-

: BlueN­est — Qatar replaces Coast of Spain

: Sky­way — Cos­ta Rica

eVTOLs

Five rat­ings changes and rea­sons why:-

: Volo­copter 8.6 from 8.0 (cer­ti­fi­ca­tion progress/production readi­ness) 

: Archer 8.1 from 7.8 (cer­ti­fi­ca­tion progress) 

: Lil­i­um 6.8 from 7.8 (fund­ing) 

: Aut­oFlight 6.1 from 5.8 (pro­duc­tion readi­ness)

: Volk­swa­gen 3.6 from 3.4 (tech­nol­o­gy readi­ness)

Fund­ing updates :-

Ehang: USD142.0 mil­lion from USD132.0 (Qing­dao West Coast New Area) 

Regent: USD45.0 mil­lion from USD27.0 (Japan Air­lines Inno­va­tion Fund) 

Dufour Aero­space: undis­closed from USD11.0 (Series B)  

Elec­tra: USD134.0 mil­lion from USD49.0 (pri­vate invest­ments, gov­ern­ment fund­ing and match­ing Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) fund­ing)

Use cas­es for the fol­low­ing OEMs:- 

Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty: Air Taxi, Car­go from Air Taxi

First Flight and EIS dates updat­ed:-

First Flight: Elroy Air, Air­bus, Aut­oFlight, Regent, eAv­i­a­tion (Tex­tron), Elec­tra, Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, Lil­i­um, Volk­swa­gen

Four info­graph­ics have been updat­ed:-  

AAM Fund­ing

Dufour Aero­space, Ehang, Elec­tra, Regent 

Race to EIS

Air­bus, Elroy Air, Pip­istrel (Tex­tron) and prob­a­bil­i­ty of mak­ing EIS for Alaka’i Tech­nolo­gies, Beta Tech­nolo­gies, Lil­i­um, Regent, Sky­Drive, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space   

AAM orders: Elroy Air, Evi­a­tion, Pip­istrel (Tex­tron), Ver­ti­cal Aero­space 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://aamrealityindex.com/