Urban Air Mobility Takes Flight with Carbon Fiber Material Innovations

Traffic gridlock. Noise pollution. Carbon emissions. A new sustainable and lightweight form of aviation promises to alleviate these familiar afflictions of city life. Urban air mobility (UAM) is a rapidly emerging reality poised to reshape how people move.

Facilitating this transformation is Toray Advanced Composites, whose pioneering materials are indispensable to getting the revolution off the ground. Toray’s carbon fiber composites lie at the core of eVTOL development, offering the lightness and strength needed to make electric-powered urban flight viable.

“This could be a new paradigm for how people move around, especially in urban spaces,” says Scott Unger, CEO of Toray Advanced Composites, which supplies carbon fiber materials for eVTOL development and production. “It’s about getting cars off the street, making our air cleaner and reducing noise pollution in cities. It could fundamentally change how cities function and feel to society.”

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