The Future of Electric Aviation: Differentiating Between Myth and Reality

Over the past 20 years, electrification of the automotive and marine sectors created growth opportunities for businesses throughout the energy industry. This year, many are having the same discussions about electrification of the aviation industry as the next big opportunity. ​This report reviews th...

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PROFILE Adastec May 9, 2022
Adastec was founded in 2018; it has raised roughly USD 5 million in funding thus far The company develops Flowride, a software for factory-fitted L4 autonomous buses Flowride has three modules to deal with the driving task, data handling and storage, and remote monitoring; the software can also handle tasks such as parking at bus stops, opening and closing of doors, controlling air conditioning, and collecting fares from passengers Adastec works directly with OEMs to develop these buses; the company currently has such a partnership with Karsan The company has deployed one bus each in the U.S., France, Romania, Turkey, and Norway; all of them have a safety driver, which it hopes to remove by the beginning of 2024 Clients interested in deploying autonomous buses or those looking for investment opportunities should await performance metrics such as the percentage of kilometers driven autonomously, sizes and characteristics of the coverage zones, number of driver interventions, etc. from Adastec; clients such as OEMs looking to develop autonomous buses should engage with Adastec to possibly set up some pilots
NEWS Nissan announces new driver-assistance technology for collision avoidance April 26, 2022
Nissan demonstrated its still-in-development "ground truth perception" technology at its test facility in Japan. The technology uses information from a sensor suite with lidar, radar, and cameras. Nissan is developing this in partnership with Luminar, which provides the lidars (with a detection distance of 985 ft.), and Applied Intuition, which sets up the simulation platform. Nissan intends to fully develop the ground truth perception technology by the mid-2020s with the goal of including it in all models by 2030. Capability wise, the demonstration did not showcase anything fundamentally different compared to the many autonomy tests going on worldwide. Clients should look out for future Nissan demonstrations on public roads.
PROFILE Guardian Agriculture May 12, 2022
Guardian develops a large multirotor drone that targets precision agriculture spraying applications The drone's gross takeoff weight is 1,300 lb., including over 200 lb. of payload; the projected operational spraying rate is 80 acres/h The spraying mechanism actually uses two drones in a multistep process where a small drone conducts a scanning overflight of the area for mapping, and then this information is transformed to the large eVTOL for chemical application The company plans to employ a service business model and will include services from preflight path planning to flight day execution Clients interested in a large-scale drone for agri-spraying applications should engage with Guardian as the company claims USD 20 million in service reservation agreements with farmers