Flying Taxi Startup Vertical to Open UK Battery Facility
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Vertical Aerospace Ltd set up a new facility in Bristol to design, test and manufacture battery packs for its proposed electric flying taxis.
The Vertical Energy Center will take cells supplied by Taiwan’s E-One Moli Energy Corp., which trades as Molicel, and assemble them into a custom designed battery pack, the company said in a statement Tuesday. It has hired a 50-strong team from firms including McLaren, the European Space Agency, Airbus SE and Jaguar Land Rover to develop proprietary technology that allows greater power to weight ratios for flight.