Elysian Aircraft

That's a wrap! New York Climate Week is done. What a week it was, full of meeting climate investors, ecosystem builders, policy makers, and climate tech businesses who are trying to impact the world in a positive way. A quick recap of the last days with a few key take-aways and highlights: An insightful session by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Breakthrough Energy regarding financing complex projects and bringing various parties together to bring them over the line. Good meetings on pushing the envelope in sustainable aviation, with Juriaan Kellermann of Fokker Next Gen with Shashank Nigam ✈ and Dirk Singer of SimpliFlying, Colin McKerracher of BloombergNEF, and Jeffrey Engler of Wright Electric. And the main event for Elysian Aircraft, The ReAssembly: 2 days full of inspiring sessions from all angles of climate, circularity and biodiversity. Our plenary panel on Fuelling the Future: The Shift Toward Low Carbon Transportation with Rohan Patel, Sangita Sharma and myself, moderated by Melissa Jun Rowley, led to a really interesting discussion on stage on how to reduce carbon emissions in aviation. Following were two breakout sessions going deeper into what is needed to decarbonize aviation and introduce battery-electric flight, with insights from Stephen Snyder of JetBlue Ventures, Thomas Baker of BCG, our own Rob Wolleswinkel and Sarabeth Brockley of CarbonBetter, as well as Dr Ionel Stefan of Amprius, Nathan Millecam of EP Systems, and Jelle Vastert (Milence, Jedlix - Smart Charging and former global head of charging at Tesla), moderated by Dirk Singer. Elysian sneak previewed its energy impact study with CE Delft, noted Today in Aviation Week: https://lnkd.in/ePY-kkVy. The full research report will be published next month, concluding that if we can electrify larger aircraft (e.g. 90 passengers under 1000km), we should. With a green grid, electric flight competes per passenger with electric train and electric car. Wesley Schultz of the band The Lumineers closed off the event, after which Michael Smith and I were able to tickle our other passions as dj's and play a few tunes for a group of dancing climateers. On day 2, I was very inspired by circularity "founder" and Cradle To Cradle author William McDonough, who forewarned that the technosphere is now heavier than the biosphere (e.g. human-made output weight is bigger than nature-made output weight), and that the solution starts by reshaping the question to how can we best make use of our materials to keep re-using them in the most optimal way; or in better words "from end of life, to new life". A massive thank you to Michael Smith, Katie Hoffman and Regeneration.VC for such a great experience. A special thank you to the Dutch consul-general in New York Ahmed Dadou for joining us, and Jorn Poldermans for all your help. Looking forward to connecting to everyone we've met in the next few weeks! Reynard de Vries Rob Wolleswinkel Martijn Breen Jelle Vastert Lize Hong

Reflecting on a great first day at New York Climate Week! 🌏 The day started bright and early, ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq Exchange hosted by New System Ventures, which was quite the experience. What a cool event to start climate week with. I absolutely loved the energy in the room and the great keynotes and panel with Laurene Powell Jobs and Tom Steyer kicking off New York Climate Week, which happens right alongside the United Nations General Assembly, and many investors, policy makers, and climate entrepreneurs. In the words of Katie Hoffman who kindly invited me and who summarized it perfectly: "Tom Steyer and Laurene Powell Jobs set an important tone: capital markets are a driving force for climate action, and are already bringing us closer to the renewable, prosperous future humanity deserves. Now it's time for greater collaboration and focus to scale what's possible." This message makes so much sense, as climate is not only critical for our society, but also for our economy – from small businesses to the public markets. Later on in the day Rob Wolleswinkel and I joined Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at the United Nations HQ and SDG Media Zone for an inspiring session on "Delivering Value with International Co-operation", where we heard a few great sessions by a.o. Wendy Woods and Melissa Fleming. We will be here all week, and are hosting a track with Elysian Aircraft (panel and breakout) at #TheReassembly on sustainable transport and electrifying aviation on Thursday. Do reach out if you want to attend or meet up in NYC! #Nasdaq #NasdaqExchange #NYCW #ClimateWeek #sustainableaviation #pantaholdings #elysianaircraft #fokkernextgen #aircraft #climatetech Martijn Breen Rob Wolleswinkel Reynard de Vries Lize Hong Jelle Vastert

Thank you for visiting last week Elysian Aircraft, very inspiring to look at electrification efforts across sectors.

I joined Dutch national broadcaster NPO's news podcast De Dag together with a.o. Maarten Steinbuch to talk about a forward look to travel in 2050 and the potential role of Elysian Aircraft and the E9X within this future world of travel. The podcast is for Dutch speakers I'm afraid ;). But here are 3 key take aways that I discussed: 1. Flying electric is possible at short ranges (up to 1000km) and is not just better for the climate than almost all other transport options, but is also attractive in terms of operational costs (something which only improves over time as electricity and batteries become cheaper). This is good news for airlines and consumers and means anyone can fly electric in the future. 🔋 💰 2. Investment is needed in infrastructure and logistics. Governments and companies need to work together to lay the ground works. Similar to other options such as hydrogen and sustainable fuels (SAF). The focus should be on the optimal mix and making sure energy is used in the best way, where other energy sources are saved for larger distances. 🔌 3. Elysian is well on its way to solving many of the technological challenges around larger electric aircraft. Research on specific areas has shown no showstoppers to date. 👨🎓 👩🎓