ADAC Luftrettung to use electric air taxis in winter 2024/25
The air rescue service has been working with Volocopter to achieve this goal
From the 2024/25 winter, German air rescue service ADAC Luftrettung plans to use electric air taxis from Volocopter in a multi-year test.
The companies have been working together for five years to use the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) device in air rescues.
A demonstration of the VoloCity model in ADAC yellow took place on 28 September in Bruchsal, Germany; it was uncrewed.
This model has 18 rotors on a ring above the cabin, which can fit two people.
At the end of 2024 or beginning of 2025, flight operations with crewed, electrically powered VoloCity multicopters are scheduled to start in the regions of Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria.
After several years of research, emergency physicians will then be able to get to the scene of an accident or incident in the shortest possible time quietly at low cost and with low emissions.
ADAC Luftrettung has already secured purchase rights for 150 Volocopters in the event of a successful project phase.
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