Joby Aviation Doubles Pilot Evtol Facility Capacity As It Races Toward Air Taxi Launch

Joby Aviation has doubled nan size and accumulation capacity of its aviator manufacturing installation successful Marina, California arsenic it races to commercialize eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles) by early adjacent year. 

The now-435,500 square-foot installation will beryllium capable to nutrient 24 craft per twelvemonth and “nearly one” each different week erstwhile afloat operational, according to Joby. The installation will besides support national certification, crushed and formation testing, aviator training, and craft maintenance. 

TechCrunch has asked erstwhile Joby expects to beryllium producing vehicles astatine afloat capacity, arsenic good arsenic for updates connected Joby’s first scaled installation Dayton, Ohio, which is still nether building and is designed to build up to 500 craft per year.  

Joby has enlisted engineers from its strategical investor Toyota to thief build some sites. Toyota closed nan first $250 cardinal tranche of a antecedently announced $500 cardinal investment into Joby successful May.

The news of Joby’s expanded aviator installation comes arsenic nan eVTOL institution besides adds a sixth craft to its fleet. Joby says nan craft earned its airworthiness certification wrong a week of completion.

Joby went nationalist done a SPAC merger successful 2021. The institution plans to motorboat commercially first successful Dubai successful early 2026, pinch a U.S. marketplace to follow.