Incumbents are getting in on the future air mobility action

Incumbents are getting in on the future air mobility action

The future air mobility (FAM) Industry is growing, with 16,000 orders placed for novel aircraft and propulsion systems, $15.8 billion in disclosed funding in the last ten years, and new investments and orders continuing to flow in. Although startup manufacturers have garnered much attention, incumbent original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have assumed an increasingly active role in recent years. While most major aerospace OEMs have researched innovations and future concepts including novel propulsion, unusual aircraft configurations, and autonomy for decades, they only began more formal programs on these topics recently. Aerospace suppliers have also become more active in FAM over the past few years.

Given these developments, we analyzed the FAM efforts of the largest established aerospace OEMs and suppliers to gain more clarity about their current activity. Our results show that 72 percent of the largest 25 aircraft OEMs and 64 percent of the largest 25 suppliers

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Future concepts of Lodging – Panel discussion at HIGH5 Innovation Conference

Future concepts of Lodging – Panel discussion at HIGH5 Innovation Conference

Future concepts of Lodging – Panel discussion at HIGH5 Innovation Conference
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Bringing together hoteliers, innovators, and thought leaders to reshape the hospitality industry, HIGH5 covered hot topics like alternative accommodation concepts, tech-enabled operators, customer data privacy, or the latest real estate developments.

Panel discussion: Future concepts of Lodging

Senior living, serviced apartments, micro-containers for truck drivers, or student housing, alternative accommodation concepts are currently booming in the hospitality market. Why and how can operators challenge the status quo with a new hospitality experience?

Speakers:

  • Christina Kainz, Co-founder @ Lively
  • Niko Karstikko, CEO & Co-founder @ Bob W.
  • Christian Theisen, CEO & Co-founder @ Roatel
  • Armon Bar-Tur, Executive Chairman & CEO @ BaseCamp Student
  • Sean Work, Author @ The Adapters (Moderator)

About Apaleo

Founded in 2017 out of Munich, Apaleo is the open property management platform for hotel and serviced apartment groups. Apaleo empowers accommodation providers to create the ultimate digital

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Audi Activesphere Concept: The Future Is VR Sport Coupe SUV Pickupy Things

Audi Activesphere Concept: The Future Is VR Sport Coupe SUV Pickupy Things

A pair of Audi Activesphere concepts facing each otherIf you combined almost every type of vehicle Americans can buy in 2023 into a single thing on four wheels, you’d get the future of Audi.

The German luxury automaker has been teasing its future plans with a series of concept cars with the suffix sphere. None are spherical.

The cabin of the Audi Activesphere concept

Not a Real Car. Or Truck. Or SUV.

Automakers routinely build concept cars — one-off models meant to show possible future design directions but never intended for sale. We rarely bother to report on them because they’re not something you can buy.

But this is the fourth Audi-sphere car and the second one we’ve covered. The first earned an article because it’s like the Batmobile. Audi called it the Skysphere, not the Batsphere. But Batman calls himself Bruce, and you’re not fooled.

This latest concept is called the Activesphere, and we’re covering it because… it’s neat. And we’d like to see

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Sci-fi concepts that could change how we explore space

Sci-fi concepts that could change how we explore space

Beginning decades ago as ideas that seemed more like science fiction, these missions took years of research and testing to come to life.

Technological advances and scientific breakthroughs have transformed how we observe and investigate the cosmos. How will space exploration change in the coming decades, and what new possibilities will emerge?

These questions are at the heart of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, which awards funding for concepts that could be part of future missions.

“NASA dares to make the impossible possible,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. “That’s only achievable because of the innovators, thinkers, and doers who are helping us imagine and prepare for the future of space exploration. The NIAC program helps give these forward-thinking scientists and engineers the tools and support they need to spur technology that will enable future NASA missions.”

The lastest NIAC competition selected 14 new concepts, awarding
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Nissan unveils Max-Out EV convertible concept at ‘Futures’ event

Nissan unveils Max-Out EV convertible concept at ‘Futures’ event

As part of the launch of its Nissan Futures event kicking off in Japan this week, Nissan Motor Company unveiled a physical EV convertible prototype called the Max-Out – based on a virtual rendering teased in 2021. The Japanese automaker says the electric convertible concept represents its ambitions for sustainability in the future, but we can’t help but wonder why the creators of the LEAF didn’t start developing EVs like this ten years ago?

Nissan Motor Corporation ($NSANY) has been in business since the 1930s in Japan and is recognized as one of the early promoters of electric vehicles with its Nissan LEAF, which debuted all the way back in 2010.

It would take 12 years for the Japanese automaker to grace the US with another BEV, when the Ariya began deliveries last fall. While Nissan gears up to take a custom Ariya 17,000 miles from the North to the

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