Automotive safety approach for future eVTOL vehicles

Published 2023-03-01 From CEAS Aeronautical Journal 7 authors

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The eVTOL industry is a rapidly growing mass market expected to start in 2024. eVTOL compete, caused by their predicted missions, with ground-based transportation modes, including mainly passenger cars. Therefore, the automotive and classical aircraft design process is reviewed and compared to highlight advantages for eVTOL development. A special focus is on ergonomic comfort and safety. The need for further investigation of eVTOL’s crashworthiness is outlined by, first, specifying the relevance of passive safety via accident statistics and customer perception analysis; second, comparing the current state of regulation and certification; and third, discussing the advantages of integral safety and applying the automotive safety approach for eVTOL development. Integral safety links active and passive safety, while the automotive safety approach means implementing standardized mandatory full-vehicle crash tests for future eVTOL. Subsequently, possible crash impact conditions are analyzed, and three full-vehicle crash load cases are presented.

Authors

Lukas Laarmann
A. Thoma
Philipp Misch
Thilo Röth
C. Braun
S. Watkins
M. Fard

Keywords

Engineering
Environmental Science

Citation: Lukas Laarmann, A. Thoma, Philipp Misch , et al. (2023). Automotive safety approach for future eVTOL vehicles. CEAS Aeronautical Journal. Semantic Scholar ID 12467fb5ee2b1ef610e95c7cd4cde7e0535a4440. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-023-00655-0 ↗