Volocopter: Transforming Mobility

At Volocopter, we are working tirelessly to build the future of mobility. Given the global rise of megacities, sustainable mobility solutions that offer an additional layer of conventional transportation are in high demand.
OUR MISSION is to transform urban mobility in a way that alleviates the existing transportation infrastructure that is under extreme pressure. And we will not be held back by the limits of what we knew before. Could you imagine an urban cityscape without roads, bridges, or tunnels?
Our brand of urban mobility will get passengers safely to their destination with zero in-flight emissions and cityscape views to remember. And it will do it all with minimal noise.
While we won’t claim to solve all urban challenges through our technology, by joining forces with like-minded partners we can take the essential first step toward a brighter - and more airborne - future. Will you step aboard and help us create a more sustainable tomorrow?
Volocopter: we WILL bring urban air mobility to life. Coming soon.
#Volocopter #FutureofMobility #SustainableMobility

[@curtis_newton_74]

Wer braucht so nen Käse?

[@luna7501]

Ich mach sofort den Schein (bin Taxifahrer).

[@caledonianrailway1233]

What’s diffrent with this and a normal helicopter

[@souptiksheet0]

Green because of battery and safe because of multiple rotors

[@4ohm531]

this is a scam made for money laundering, a normal helicopter no

[@OMG-hy4qz]

that is a scam

[@caledonianrailway1233]

@@souptiksheet0 so more blenders?

[@ramdas363]

No emissions apart from the "minimum noise". Only of course it's anything but minimum in reality, these things are noisy af. Imagine having hundreds of them constantly flying over your city.

[@khoi83]

I prépare my popcorn already... Let,s see when one of those hit a bird in the air...

[@4ohm531]

Any flight engineer can easily explain that multi rotors are not scalable for a variety of aerodynamic and other physical reasons. If you make the rotors bigger you need adjustable pitch because you can't control them via RPM anymore. Rotational inertia increases with diameter3 so your rotor size is limited if changing RPM is your means of controlling the thing. That's why you get ridiculous constructions like the ones that get posted here all the time with 8 or 16 rotors, which is about as efficient as breathing through a straw. Tip vortices losses alone on this thing would be flat out ridiculous. The limit to all those machines is power to weight ratio thanks to the battery. Helicopters are already the most demanding vehicles in that category, and creating the world's least efficient rotor system with a ton of small rotors makes this issue infinitely worse. It is no surprise that the only functional electric helicopters (with a real payload of more than one anorexic supermodel) have been an R44 converted to electric drive, and a Sikorsky S300, both featuring a conventional single rotor. Next to that they don't have the safety of a auto rotating helicopter. A helicopter that loses complete electrical and mechanical power still remains controllable as long as there is some kinetic energy in the rotor and some potential gravitational energy that can be exchanged for kinetic energy. But with the volocopter if there is an imbalance in clock wise and counter clockwise rotors it will start to spin, and the computer has to compensate by shutting a opposed rotor down. So the entire thing comes down to the computer. Electrical failure or computer failure and it either falls out of the sky or starts violently spinning. It's a 100% doomed to fail. Physics guarantees it. And those engineers that work on it should know this, which means there is a very high chance it's purpose is just to scam investors.

[@jakobb598]

Counterargument computer failures: FBW system of any passenger aircraft in use ;)

[@4ohm531]

@@jakobb598 you are right, but that affects any type of aircraft, volocopter included

[@fffzzzzzz]

Parachute safety system?

[@4ohm531]

@@fffzzzzzz nonsense

[@OMG-hy4qz]

This thing is an absolute joke only made to scam investors, it makes absolutely NO SENSE

[@flippert0]

Investing in other eVTOLs right now?

[@dirkweindel9492]

Gamechanger!

[@inmyheadfred]

It's electric 1st off, do some research

[@lauchbaer]

Volocopter aren't the future - sorry.