UPS orders 10 eVTOLs from Beta Technologies

UPS expects to take delivery of 10 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft from Beta Technologies in 2024 and has an option to purchase up to 150 more. Bala Ganesh, vice president for engineering at UPS, said the company sees the new vehicles as responding to intersecting “megatrends,” noting “there’s personalized medicines, there’s hyper urbanization, there’s going to be restrictions of internal combustion vehicles in urban areas, there’s going to be traffic congestion and thereby, maybe even congestion pricing of what can come in or not in the cities.”