the U.S. must win the eVTOL race with China

From	Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net>
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Subject	the U.S. must win the eVTOL race with China
Date	2025-02-25 10:04 -0800
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https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/green-air-travel-aviation-industry-trump-906ecb81

In the Trump Era, Flying Green Doesn’t Matter Anymore

President’s endorsement has pushed up air-taxi stocks, but development of
all types of zero-emission aircraft is falling by the wayside

By Jon Sindreu
Feb. 21, 2025 7:00 am ET


A model of a ZEROe hydrogen fuel cell powered aero engine, developed by
Airbus, on display at last year’s VivaTech conference in Paris. Photo:
Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg News

Though investors’ attention has been focused on the failure of Nikola, the
electric-truck maker that briefly had a higher market capitalization than
Ford Motor, a similar trend has been quietly playing out in aviation.

It was almost yesterday that this industry aimed for a utopian tomorrow of
electric and hydrogen aircraft. And, judging by the rally in the stocks of
the makers of air taxis—properly called electric vertical takeoff and
landing vehicles, or eVTOL—this future is still on the table. Joby Aviation
JOBY -3.70% decrease and Archer Aviation ACHR -6.12% decrease, which report
earnings next week, are up 48% and 213%, respectively, since the Nov. 5
election. Investors seem to be putting a lot of weight on statements by
President Trump and the new transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, arguing
that the U.S. must win the eVTOL race with China. ...

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the U.S. must win the eVTOL race with China Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> - 2025-02-25 10:04 -0800
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