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Home » The hydrogen-powered VTOL aircraft travels a record 523 miles.
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The hydrogen-powered VTOL aircraft travels a record 523 miles.

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Hydrogen-electric air taxis broke records 523 miles (842 km) flights over California, producing only water as a direct by-product.

According to a statement from Joby Aviation, the company behind the air taxi prototype, the flight is three times the distance record set by the same developer’s electric vehicle, “indicating the possibility that hydrogen could unlock travel in areas with no emissions.” Air taxis could fly even longer in the future, as they left 10% of the hydrogen fuel load after the flight.

According to Joby Aviation, the flight takes place on June 24th, and is the first forward flight of a hydrogen-fueled aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL). Previous hydrogen fuel flights used either aircraft, such as planes that needed runways, or smaller vehicles, such as Meta Vista’s unmanned multi-rotor designs. Flights for these hydrogen fueled planes lasted 10 minutes to 3 hours for the H2FLY design (H2FLY is a subsidiary of Joby Aviation). The Metavista vehicle flew in a record 12 hours. It is unclear what distance these aircraft cover, but H2fly said the plane could one day fly up to 930 miles (1,500 km).

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The Joby Aviation’s Air Taxi is a modified electric aircraft with six rotors for use in urban areas. The original battery-operated vehicle completed 25,000 miles (40,000 km) testing on its base in Marina, California and many flights in New York City. The engineers then converted the battery-electric aircraft into a hydrogen-electric aircraft by adding a fuel tank that could store 88 pounds (40 kilograms) of liquid hydrogen and a hydrogen fuel cell system.

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Fuel cells convert hydrogen into electricity, water, and heat in the presence of oxygen. According to the statement, electricity is driven into the aircraft’s rotors and water is released as waste. The aircraft also always carry reduced battery counts and provide additional power during takeoff and landing.

“Imagine you can fly from San Francisco to San Diego, Boston, Baltimore, or Nashville, or New Orleans. Imagine you don’t have to go to the airport and you don’t have any emissions other than water,” Joeben Bevirt said in a statement.

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Aerial front view of Joby Aviation's hydrogen electric air taxi.

Joby Aviation’s hydrogen-electric aircraft are equipped with a fuel tank that can store 88 pounds of liquid hydrogen. (Image credit: Joby Aviation)

The advantage of hydrogen-powered designs is that they can go far more than battery-electric ones that need to be charged every 100-150 miles (160-240 km).

Joby Aviation is scheduled to begin selling its original battery-electric design in 2025. Hydrogen-electric air taxis take time to market, but “a large part of the design, testing and certification work for battery-electric aircraft has been carried over to the commercialization of hydrogen-electric flight,” says Bevirt.

Joby Aviation recently became the first developer of an electric VTOL aircraft that has completed a third of five phases of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) type certification process. In this third phase, the FAA reviewed and approved Joby’s certification plan for the aircraft’s structural, mechanical and electrical systems. The next phase includes the FAA looking at the entire aircraft and all of its systems.

Joby Aviation plans to deploy the same infrastructure, landing pads, operations teams and software for both types of vehicles, which can be used simultaneously or seamlessly migrated from one another, according to a statement.


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