{"id":23651,"date":"2026-07-22T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23651"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:22:44","slug":"evtol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/evtol\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, an IIT Madras-incubated startup launched India&#8217;s first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft prototype.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a battery-powered aircraft that <\/span><b>can take off and land vertically <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">like a helicopter before transitioning to forward flight like a conventional airplane.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An eVTOLs <\/span><b>does not require long runways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>low-altitude urban air mobility aircraft<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> capable of carrying only a few passengers- six seaters and eight seaters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most designs use <\/span><b>multiple electrically powered propellers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of a single large rotor, allowing them to lift off from relatively small spaces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eVTOL aircraft use <\/span><b>multiple electric motors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and propellers powered by batteries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Technology used<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most eVTOLs use <\/span><b>distributed electric propulsion technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which means integrating a complex propulsion system with the airframe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>multiple motors for various functions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; to increase efficiency; and to also ensure safety.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Applications:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Air Taxi, Delivery, Medical assistance (EMS), Cargo Transport, Recreation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/industry\/aviation\/india-first-air-taxi-prototype-how-evtols-work-explained-126072000373_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft is a battery-powered aircraft that can take off and land vertically like a helicopter before transitioning to forward flight like a conventional airplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":114521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8855,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-23651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-electric-vertical-take-off-and-landing-aircraft","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114535,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651\/revisions\/114535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}