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  • German industry embraces Energiewende transformation challenge

    The energy transition's effects on the economy 20 Apr 2018, 00:00 After balking at the Energiewende for many years, German industry has made a notable shift- embracing the energy transition with a new fervour. To be sure, efforts to curb climate ...
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  • German government denies state aid to struggling air taxi startup Lilium

    18 Oct 2024, 13:39 Jack McGovan Transport Start-ups Business & Jobs Policy Spiegel / ntv / revolution Struggling electric air taxi company Lilium will not receive German state aid in its bid to avoid insolvency. Lawmakers rejected the Bavarian startup ...
  • 06 May 2024 |

    Electric air taxi start-ups say lack of state support in Germany could force them abroad

    06 May 2024, 12:56 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Business & Jobs Süddeutsche Zeitung Two pioneering electric air taxi start-ups from Germany have criticised the government for not doing enough to provide the budding industry with a viable commercial ...
  • 17 May 2019 |

    Electric air taxi five-seater by Germany’s Lilium completes maiden flight

    17 May 2019, 13:31 Benjamin Wehrmann Transport Technology 91tv The new five-seater electric air taxi by aviation company Lilium from Munich has completed its first flight successfully. According to the company, the Lilium Jet’s maiden flight ...
  • 18 Jul 2024

    In brief | 18 July '24

    18 Jul 2024, 11:00 91tv Team Ursula von der Leyen: "We'll stay the course on the EU Green Deal and the goals we set for 2030 and 2050" " We will now focus on implementation & investment" and "put forward a Clean ...
  • Start-up Lilium secures 90 million dollars funding for electric air taxi project

    Munich start-up Lilium has secured financing worth 90 million dollars from prominent funders to pursue its project of building an electric five-seat autonomous air taxi that takes off vertically. “This investment is a tremendously important step for ...
  • 06 Jan 2025

    In brief | 6 January '25

    06 Jan 2025, 10:43 91tv Team HydrogenInsight: German chancellor calls on EU to shelve 'excessively strict' green hydrogen definition Scholz argues that planned projects cannot compete based on what the European Commission will accept is a ...
  • 12 Sep 2024 |

    Air taxis have high costs and emissions, not useful for energy transition – researchers

    12 Sep 2024, 13:44 Jack McGovan Transport 91tv / Spiegel Air taxis and other electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are not useful mass transport technologies for the energy transition, according to a report by the Leibniz ...
  • 04 Mar 2021 |

    German electric air taxi pioneer Volocopter raises 200 million euros in funding

    04 Mar 2021, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Transport 91tv German urban air mobility company Volocopter has raised an additional 200 million euros in funding from a wide range of investors to help “solidify [its] leading position” in the market and ...
  • 05 Apr 2019 |

    German e-car pioneer takes to the skies in hybrid “Silent Air Taxi”

    05 Apr 2019, 09:08 German e-car pioneer Günther Schuh, who runs the e-car startup  e.GO Mobile  and spearheaded the development of the  electric delivery van StreetScooter  now used by Deutsche Post DHL, has set his sights on conquering the air. Schuh, ...
  • 10 Feb 2025

    In brief | 10 February '25

    10 Feb 2025, 13:25 91tv Team Reuters: Baltic states switch to European power grid, ending Russia ties The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system, severing Soviet-era ...
  • 21 Jun 2018 |

    Germany picks home city of carmaker Audi to test flying taxis

    The German government has chosen Ingolstadt to try out flying taxis in cooperation with Airbus and carmaker Audi, which is based in the Bavarian city. Transport minister Andreas Scheuer said flying taxis are no longer a pipe dream of the future. Instead, ...
  • 30 Oct 2024

    In brief | 30 October '24

    30 Oct 2024, 10:49 91tv Team IEA: Global market for key clean technologies set to triple to more than 2 trillion USD over the coming decade as energy transitions advance IEA analysis shows complex interplay between energy, industrial and trade policies as ...
  • Ten German startups in Cleantech Group’s global 100 cleantech list

    30 Jan 2019, 13:33 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Hydrogen Start-ups Business & Jobs Technology Cleantech Group Ten German startups are among the 100 most innovative clean technology companies from around the globe, according to US-based ...
  • 14 Jun 2019 |

    Spike in offsetting flight emissions with German non-profit atmosfair

    14 Jun 2019, 13:16 Julian Wettengel Climate & CO2 Transport Tagesspiegel Berlin-based carbon-offsetting non-profit organisation atmosfair has increased its revenues by more than 40 percent in 2018, as more and more flight passengers use its services ...
  • 23 May 2019 |

    Airbus "seriously aims for decarbonisation", works on electric airplanes

    23 May 2019, 12:25 Julian Wettengel Transport Handelsblatt / Airbus European multinational aircraft manufacturer Airbus “seriously aims for decarbonisation”, the company’s CEO Guillaume Faury said at the "Airbus Innovation Days" in French city ...
  • 20 May 2019 |

    German parties at odds over idea of banning short-distance flights in Europe

    20 May 2019, 13:12 Expert DLR- German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Transport Technology Benjamin Wehrmann Climate & CO2 Transport Policy Hamburger Abendblatt / 91tv The idea by socialist EU Commission ...
  • Emission-free aviation is technically feasible- DLR Researcher

    02 May 2018, 00:00 Josef Kallo, director of the Institute for Energy Conversion and Storage at Ulm University and coordinator of the Research Group Energy Systems Integration at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), says electric flight is not just a distant ...
  • Energy transition start-ups shake up the business world

    11 Jul 2019, 13:33 The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many start-ups are ...
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