Our Mission
Carbon-free design solutions for an affordable and safe mobility of persons and goods
The opportunity for a new full electric cargo feeder aircraft
In the coming years, the logistic sector will see a deep transformation. Key factors are:
- the efficiency of the supply of raw materials and goods necessary for the transformation process;
- the possibility of having a logistical and commercial organization that allows the placement of the finished product or goods on the market at the times and places required.
Our efforts aim to make the growth of freight and goods transport more sustainable in the coming years, and e-commerce will push to even more incredible growth in freight transport.
Traditional means of land transport will have great difficulties in supporting the growing demand for freight transport due to the inadequacy of highways and congestion of land traffic.
The answer is the increasing role in the logistic chain of low-cost, low-carbon air transportation for feeder and last-mile delivery.
The fleets of aircraft of logistics operators will grow very quickly to avoid losing the market.
We see the growth of air fleets with a complex mix of long-range and mid-range aircraft. Still, above all, the number of feeder aircraft (capable of operating from small to medium-sized airports to cargo hubs) and unmanned (last mile) aircraft will increase dramatically.
Electrifying the legacy
At the heart of our 200-miles feeder transport strategy is to electrify existing aircraft the development of a completely new aircraft would have extremely high time and development cost with difficulties to manage technical risks due to the complexities of new technologies involved.
Modifying existing aircraft in the category up to 1.5 tons of payload, allows to concentrate the greatest efforts and risks only on electric propulsion and energy storage.
Full electric battery based de-carbon mobility
In line with the most stringent ICAO regulations for environmental protection, Paris Agreements and UE target of achieving climate neutral by 2050.
Electric propulsion based on battery-powered energy storage systems will make it possible to build and operate fully electric aircraft, vessels, trucks etc. within a few years, with growing performance in terms of distance range along with battery energy density increase.
A little further on the horizon is the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an energy storage system
Autonomous mobility
An important means for a relatively near-term direct operational cost reduction (DOC) in aeronautics is to fly with only one pilot on-board, that is the adoption of the so-called SPO (Single Pilot Operation) technologies.
More in general, in the longer terms we’ll see how autonomous mobility progresses for all vehicle categories including light utility aircraft and vessels.
In the meantime, autonomous vehicles, like drone with a adeguate load capacity, will be part of the future air space scenarios well integrated in the logistic chain of the future
Fixed wing aircraft and e-VTOL
Fixed-wing vehicles and electrical vertical take-off aircraft, either manned with at least one pilot (SPO) or unmanned completely autonomous or remotely piloted, will be both part of future air space operational scenarios, and in fact in our vision they are not competing but complementary.
In accordance, our strategic vision is to support design concepts that ranges across a complete product line from fixed wing electric vehicles at least with a range of 200 Nm), to full electric e-VTOL, either manned or unmanned depending on operational requirements.
