Inside Joby Aviation: Revolutionizing Urban Air Mobility 

Love the guy and his almost childish excitement explaining stuff to Sandy

Thank you Munro team for bringing the best industry practices around the globe again.

As a 78 y.o. one eyed former Pro driver and part time flyer in the Army and later in Alaska, I gave up my licenses freely for the sake of those who might get near me. With Self Driving Cars and Jobe Vertols I am confident I'll be taking a Cybercab to Detroit for a Jobe ride. Thanks to ALL involved. This is magic manifested in all four dimensions ! !

Fantastic to see JOBY being showcased by Sandy Munro! This is by far the most comprehensive look into the eVTOL sector leader's progress at the plant. Looking to the future I can only imagine what JOBY will be able to achieve once solid state batteries become available which should be soon. the current 288 Wh/Kg is sufficient to launch but the new 721 Wh/kg batteries in development will just totally disrupt the entire helicopter sector. Good days ahead for JOBY!

This is a great episode. Wow. I had to watch it twice. How Joby is approaching electric aircraft is fascinating.

Love it, really really love it. As a helicopter guy, this is wonderful for those specific applications. No helicopters will not go away, this is for where helicopters are impractical. Its like a peak into Skunkworks.

Thank you Sandy for the outstanding video! It looks like you really enjoyed yourself touring the Joby facilities.❤

I bought into these guys, just a little bit, last year when I first heard about them.. the product.. and the teams they acquired to build it. This is just confirming my suspicion of what I saw. Hope they hit a homerun! Both selfishly and for all our sakes. This is a great tech for many reasons. IF they can pull it off affordably and safely.. it's just a huge step forward in mobility in a sustainable way.

I finally agree with Sandy. What Joby is doing is comprehensive, best practices and very impressive. Not detailed, but implied by the design, is the safety and reliability which is key not only for FAA approval, but passenger acceptance. Perhaps in a year or two, there will be a few in daily flight testing. and by 2030 actual deployment and use.

That's the future of transportation! Thank you for the video

🙋‍♂️THANKS SANDY,JOEBEN, AND MUNRO FOR SHARING THE FUTURE 🥶💚💚💚

@9:25 "vertical take off eats a shi...a tremendous amount of power" love you Sandy 🤣

Thank you for showing other innovative ideas in play.

Thanks, Sandy. I always learn a bunch of new things from every Munro Live video. All the best to everyone in the video. SoCalFreddy

Another incredible video from Munro! Watch it!

Very Good Sandy I live near Marina, I had a few friends that went to work there when it was a start up. Glad to see it is progressing well.

Some of these components deserve their own segment! That prop!!😍

While the founder is awkward, the systems they have are great, they have 3d titanium for... coolant Im assuming, they have autoclaves for making composite parts, the lab is VERY extensive, and well thought out, the motors are pretty slick putting all the moving parts and inverter in one package, and the engineering thought they put into just the plug is great. I hope this company is able to keep going, just don't read all the haters in the comments section here lolz

I'm waiting! GoGo Joby!

Absolutely riveting. The innovation in technology is inspiring. Thanks Sandy for exposing us.

Wow high praise from Sandy! This company has my attention!

This is a great example of modern designing, i loved it....thanks Sandy

Great stuff 👍

Love seeing this side of Munro’s expertise!

Super cool. Thanks!

Nice Had no idea we were at this level of development.

extremely interesting! thanks

That was a great walk through, some really nice engineering.

I wish I was younger so I could see all this come about thinks for showing this much!

Great video Sandy!!!

Chapeau Sandy👏👏👏

Awesome technology! 😍😍😍😍

Great video Sandy, thanks to you and the Joby team for sharing.

Go Go Joby !

WOW just WOW. They know their stuff.

Fantastic. I wish them big success.

Awesome

nice visit and good video

Great!

Tesla of the skys!! Way to go JOBY!

Wow. This is gonna be a good one

WOW!

Do not change man who make intro!!! Thank You for informative video.

great.

At 21:40 I can see they're using X-Plane internals for the simulation. Great stuff!

Always educational to see a mfg site. It was a treat to see how new tech is manufactured into real products. Will they let me fly one of these lovely machines? Even a sim flight would be cool.

THANKS JOHN TOO…SANDY IS DELIGHTED AND AMAZED 🤯…I AM ALSO DELIGHTED 🤗 AND AMAZED 🤯🤯🤯

I need one of these.

So glad this is really flies

Never heard of them until today, so these guys are the current leaders in eVTOL?

A launch area that provides an upward whoosh would conserve a lot of energy for the initial lift off. think of the indoor skydiving.

So refreshing to see someone that's not a used car salesman explain the mission and challenges. Not sure if assembling your own PCB amounts to savings since those companies are very cost-optimized already. I'm wary of autonomous 3D pathfinding since there was already one company promising this many years ago, at the cost of stakeholders, never actually delivering FSD to masses. And they would be one of the only ones who can actually deliver it. One dimension more is an order of magnitude harder. Disclaimer: I've worked in automotive, software, airspace obstacle avoidance and even a bit subcontracting for Boeing. The Jetsons are not coming soon.

Very informative video. I like the transparency and all the proof points shown that Joby is making steady progress.

Sandy is also impressed by how tall the CEO is. Probably how Delta felt too.

AWESOME VIDEO!

dope

06:23 “no shit, wow” 😂😂😂😂

👍

I bought some joby a while back. solid looking enginering

Very (pleasantly!) surprised to see a Joby video from Munro, I must say. I totally did not expect that, with Munro's usual focus on the car industry... I've had an eye open for Joby for quite a few years now, I consider their design of craft to be one of the more viable ones, as many VTOL electric craft use separate lift and forward propulsion motors and impellers. So when you're in forward flight mode, you have a whole bunch of extra hardware weighing you down that is of zero use to you, and in fact is impacting your performance negatively, including a multitude of propellers sitting in the airstream causing drag, and while taking off and landing, you of course also have to lift all of the forward flight hardware. This is just straight-up bad design. Not so with the Joby burd. You use the same motors and propellers for both take-off and landings, as well as for forward flight, with a small mechanism to transition between the two modes which in of itself is much lighter than a whole bunch of entirely separate lift motors/inverters and cabling and so on, and doesn't cause any extra drag. It also means take-offs and landings will be much quieter with the Joby's large, slow-spinning propellers than for a craft using dedicated lift motors - because weight and drag is such a concern, the lift propellers can't be too large, so they'll have to spin very fast instead, meaning huge noise at an annoyingly high pitch. It'll be like the world's biggest swarm of industrial vacuum cleaners all running in the same place at the same time, coming in for a landing from up on above, any neighbors and so on are really gonna love that. Not to mention all the people living in a city. lol I expect that all those separate lift motor VTOL designs will be found to be a dead end within not too long, and the industry moving to a unified design instead. Of course, these tiny machines are just rich-man's toys and won't even make a dent in the fossil fuel usage curve. What we really need is fully electrical planes that can take upward of a couple hundred passengers at a time and will displace the kerosene-gulping turbofan engine aircraft we have today on the short to medium haul routes which most people fly.

Lilium ❤️🚀🚀🚀

Wow that is high praise form someone that matters.

Have those carbon fiber props been tested for resilience if one of these aircraft collides with a flock of ducks or geese? I'd be very concerned with the damage from such an encounter and the danger to the passengers. I trust the answer is "yes", but I'd like to hear it from Joby. Also, this company is a bit of a modern miracle, just like Tesla itself. Well-engineered and well-conceived machinery in an era when American companies face greater resistance to success than ever before in modern times. Keep going, folks.

founded and FUNDED with his own money from other ventures...tells you a lot about Joe ben and whats different from them and many of these other pretenders (like Archer) who spun up in the last couple of years and have used public markets to fund their development having achieved nothing...spinning up many empty promises along the way. Joby are the real deal, the more you learn about the company the more you trust and admire how much work and diligence they have done to get their technology where it is today. Didnt happen quickly.

Great stuff Munro. Would love to know if IperionX is involved or supplying titanium powder. (Hope an NDA does not get in the way)

Absolutely brilliant innovation, thank you Sandy🏆Now onto my brokerage app to buy in 👌🏼

Sandy great video. Question at 9:15 that gray piece looks to have a crack by the opening you were pointing at. Any thoughts? Also did you know about their secret test and development site in the quarry. ?

I bought 10,000$ of Joby 3 years ago @5.30$. So far dead money but still hoping for take off. If it ever takes off 10 grand goes to 100,000$. If not it goes to 0️⃣

Revolution 🎉

CATL's new condensed battery at 500wh/kg should give Joby a boost. Will Toyota allow its use?

Sandy, your opinion to Lilium?

Hurry up and buy Joby's stock before it's too late!

Considering that CATL just announced they are going to have a high density battery of 500w/kg in an aircraft by 2027-28 that will be capable of 2-3000 miles of range? These things are a slam dunk now. But the real disruption will be when they go autonomous. Because then the cost per mile will be peanuts.

Lilium to the moon 🚀🚀🚀✈️✈️✈️

When will Joby begin generating revenue and what is the outlook for profitability?

As an aeronautical engineer and former test pilot I appreciate the technological tour de force presented here. My question is; for the intended use as short range air taxi, how is this aircraft better than a Robinson R44? Helicopter air taxi has been available for decades with very limited success while utilizing aircraft with robust, certified and inexpensive technology. The Joby business model is predicated on building thousands of aircraft for a price that is quite frankly unrealistic and flying it into areas that have been off-limits to rotary aircraft also for decades.

Next is Archer aviation

Hello Team Munro. Uow about a visit at Lilium in Germany?

Sandy has a great insight of what it takes to optimize a manufacturing process. I am surprised he doesn't use similar logic about optimization of everyday short distance transportation. Having a link relying on reaction from the atmosphere makes it orders of magnitude less efficient and strongly dependent on weather. Even the military being notorious for shoveling millions for exotic capabilities are dipping their toe in the water.

Interesting as always. Unfortunately, and it’s sad this comes to mind, but was there any discussion concerning the vulnerability of a system/vehicle like this to some nut or bad actor with a rifle, laser or something worse?

Now you just need to hire a "Henry Ford" to mass produce your magnificent product.

Just make sure you change the brand name before launching in Scotland.

What is the Thrust to Weight ratio of these Helicopters

I live near a small airport and though the airport was there a 100 years before them, the neighbours still complain, so the fact that they are taking noise seriously is very wise.

since roads are made from asphalt (oil refining byproduct) and must be constantly resurfaced every few years, switching away from fossil fuels means we must switch away from roads for cars to air lanes for eVTOLs.

What battery chemistry and energy density do those use atm?

I have shared these every week for the last 4 years.. there is 3 doing it.. one American company, Archer, you should collab with, Munro Team. cheers from the Mitten.

This is only the start of VTOL thank God, I can't help thinking that the open blades are highly susceptible to damage and is there any redundant engines? No and I don't think anyone has even considered it!

Why is there a person wearing a supplied air respirator working alongside people wearing no respiratory protection?

22:45 Hugs!

12 a year will they need more money to scale up.How much to produce one unit.Any test flights with passeners onboard yet

was excpeting for a flight

Triplex.

Joby shareholder❤ Drop 5% today😢

It's a impressive Plane, no doubt - but why they fly the Prototype old-school with a Testpilot in a Cockpit? Other Startups, like Lilium, fly their prototypes unmanned, this reduces Costs a Lot.

I do have to say, I could not work out who was the happiest to be in the video, Sandy, JoeBen or Jon. Thank you Sandy for a deep dive into this high tech leading industry of future flying transportation. A long dream since the days of "The Jestsons" for a lot of us. Stunning content of a high tech company that the world can take a lot from. I now ask "you" as the viewer, what would you want to achieve if you have the best team surrounding and supporting you?

I quit flying on fossil fuel aircraft 16 years ago, I can't wait to go on my first pure-electric flight. Thanks for covering this!

💥A hermetically sealed battery. 💥

Since the rise and fall of the Moller flying car, I've not been convinced by any of these ventures that they're actually trying to succeed. Progress is insanely slow for the budgets they command. Unmanned flights with high cargo would be a BREEZE to set up for, to prove speed and range, and work on emergency protocols. Seems, these things are just still too crash happy to be even tried properly.

That superlight propeller blade will come off (literally) second best in a bird strike (if not just a sparrow) and the whole aircraft has already crashed from losing one. Joeben does not mention his time with Moller who provided the 'inspiration', the whole thing is way too top heavy and prone to being flipped over in blustery winds unlike helicopters but similar to hovercraft near lift off. The FAA published criteria require post failure 'glideability' at any point during transition or hover, this can't be done with no stored energy in the 'rotors' and no forward speed - there are numerous other shortcomings but aside from these the production techniques are way too slow,equivalent to hand built composite sailplanes of the past 60 plus years (tape laying and autovlaving is inherently slow, nothing like automotive pressings etc) too slow to build too slow to fly dangerous and actually noisy in HOVER where it matters (independent measurements confirm this , not taken upwind...) This entire evtol mad rush will not end well.