Urban-Air Port selects Osprey as preferred EV charging provider for its AAM network

Urban-Air Port (UAP) will pro­vide onsite elec­tric vehi­cle (EV) charg­ing as part of its non-aero­nau­ti­cal rev­enue, hav­ing select­ed Osprey, one of the UK’s lead­ing charge point oper­a­tors, to pro­vide charg­ing for vehi­cles at its ver­ti­port sites.

Dur­ing UAP’s three-week Air One event at Coven­try UK, Osprey pro­vid­ed sev­er­al sta­tions which will form a key part of UAP’s non-aero­nau­ti­cal rev­enue deliv­ered through its dig­i­tal plat­form and accom­pa­ny­ing app.

Osprey will pro­vide a mul­ti-modal hub infra­struc­ture of rapid charg­ers, pow­ered by elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed from 100% renew­able sources at a num­ber of sites through­out the UK that accept con­tact­less pay­ments inte­grat­ed into the UAP app.

UAP founder and exec­u­tive chair­man Ricky Sand­hu said: “Our goal is to pro­vide ground infra­struc­ture for eVTOL car­go and pas­sen­ger air taxis, includ­ing ground trans­port as demon­strat­ed at Air One, into a seam­less, zero-emis­sion jour­ney.

“We are delight­ed to have Osprey join our ecosys­tem and look for­ward to build­ing the world’s strongest and most sus­tain­able advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) infra­struc­ture to help us achieve our net zero goals.”

Osprey Charg­ing CEO Ian John­ston added: “We are delight­ed to part­ner with UAP to pro­vide safe, reli­able and acces­si­ble charg­ing at future sites.

“The eVTOL space is becom­ing increas­ing­ly rel­e­vant as the world looks to reduce emis­sions in all forms of elec­tric vehi­cle trans­port on our roads and our skies, and we look for­ward to work­ing with UAP on its future projects.”

Last month, UAP opened Air-One in Coven­try UK, claimed to be the world’s first hub for fly­ing taxis and rep­re­sent­ing a blue­print for more than 200 sites to be built world­wide over the next five years.

The AAM mar­ket is fore­cast to grow by nine per­cent annu­al­ly to reach $1 tril­lion with­in the next two decades and accord­ing to NASA, a lack of ground infra­struc­ture remains one of the sin­gle biggest bar­ri­ers to growth despite a boom­ing mar­ket and a strong pipeline of eVTOLs enter­ing com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

Ear­li­er last month, UAP select­ed Das­sault Sys­temes’ 3DExperience plat­form to sup­port the devel­op­ment of its ver­ti­ports glob­al­ly, start­ing with Air One.

The com­pa­ny will be able to cre­ate ‘vir­tu­al twins’ of infra­struc­ture and man­age them through­out oper­a­tions across all future devel­op­ment at oth­er sites.