La empresa b\u00e1vara de aviones el\u00e9ctricos Lilium ha cerrado una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n por m\u00e1s de 240 millones de d\u00f3lares. El gigante chino de Internet Tencent lider\u00f3 la ronda. Tambi\u00e9n participaron otros inversores anteriores como Atomico, Freigeist y LGT.<\/p>\n
++ A continuaci\u00f3n encontrar\u00e1 todas las actualizaciones de este art\u00edculo. ++<\/em><\/p>\n La empresa de nueva creaci\u00f3n de We\u00dfling, cerca de M\u00fanich, tiene previsto utilizar el capital fresco para seguir desarrollando el chorro Lilium y preparar la producci\u00f3n en serie en las instalaciones de producci\u00f3n reci\u00e9n terminadas. La nueva planta, con una superficie de 3.000 metros cuadrados, est\u00e1 situada justo al lado de la sede de la empresa en We\u00dfling, donde actualmente trabajan m\u00e1s de 400 personas. Pronto le seguir\u00e1 una segunda f\u00e1brica a\u00fan m\u00e1s grande en la misma ubicaci\u00f3n. Seg\u00fan Lilium, las dos plantas permitir\u00e1n a la empresa producir cientos de aviones el\u00e9ctricos al a\u00f1o para el inicio previsto de sus operaciones en 2025.<\/p>\n Lilium aspira a posicionar una flota de aviones el\u00e9ctricos en ciudades de todo el mundo para 2025. Concretamente, su objetivo es operar su propia flota de aviones Lilium para establecer un servicio de taxi a\u00e9reo a la demanda, que seg\u00fan la empresa deber\u00eda garantizar vuelos \"comparables en precio a un taxi, pero cuatro veces m\u00e1s r\u00e1pidos\", gracias a una densa red de centros de aterrizaje. Seg\u00fan Lilium, las operaciones de prueba en varios lugares comenzar\u00e1n antes de 2025.<\/p>\n T\u00e9cnicamente, los VOTL de cinco plazas que se utilizar\u00e1n tendr\u00e1n 36 motores el\u00e9ctricos, podr\u00e1n alcanzar velocidades de hasta 300 km\/h y tendr\u00e1n una autonom\u00eda de hasta 300 kil\u00f3metros. Lilium afirma que el objetivo es conectar regiones enteras de esta forma y no limitarse a distancias cortas dentro de una zona urbana.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La empresa b\u00e1vara de aviones el\u00e9ctricos Lilium ha cerrado una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n por m\u00e1s de 240 millones de d\u00f3lares. El gigante chino de Internet Tencent lider\u00f3 la ronda. Otras anteriores<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":130344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13096],"tags":[20116,10161,3701,11638,20117,9961,20118,7409,10069,7405,7101,8306],"class_list":["post-130357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air","tag-atomico","tag-bavaria","tag-bev","tag-electric-aircraft","tag-freigeist","tag-germany","tag-lgt","tag-lilium-aviation","tag-munich","tag-startup","tag-tencent","tag-vtol"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" Meanwhile, the flight tests of the Bavarians are becoming increasingly complex<\/a>: In September, Lilium published images on the occasion of the latest, completed phase of flight tests. These show the electric aircraft for the first time flying at speeds of over 100 kph and the transition from vertical to horizontal flight. According to Lilium, that part is “one of the greatest challenges of aviation”.<\/p>\n The jet celebrated its world premiere in May 2019, around which time Lilium also made its maiden flight<\/a> with the aircraft. However, Lilium suffered a setback in March: One of the two electric air taxi prototypes was irreparably damaged in a fire. The fire broke out during routine maintenance inside the aircraft, and the cause is not yet known. Until this is clarified, no test flights with the second prototype will be undertaken.<\/p>\n In Europe, the startup has initiated the certification process for the VTOL<\/a> in spring 2019. Also, Lilium considers the USA a key market with a large number of heliports and airfields, which is why Lilium also wants to gain a foothold there.<\/p>\n Before the current financing round, the start-up had already raised around 100 million dollars – Tencent was also involved at the time. In total, the Bavarians have now generated about 340 million dollars. Lilium CFO Christopher Delbr\u00fcck emphasises that the new, additional financing “underlines the deep confidence of our investors in our physical product as well as in our business case”.<\/p>\n Update 10 June 2020<\/strong>: After the electric air taxi startup Lilium closed a financing round of more than 240 million dollars at the end of March, the Bavarian company has now been able to raise a further 35 million dollars (equivalent to 31 million euros) in capital from the investment company Baillie Gifford, as Lilium has now confirmed in an announcement. Baillie Gifford has so far invested in Amazon, Tesla, Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX, among others, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n Together with the commitment of the British investor, Lilium has now raised 375 million US dollars. Lilium intends to use the money to further develop the jet and also to advance serial production in the newly completed production facilities.<\/p>\n “Baillie Gifford is one of the world\u2019s most influential tech investors and their commitment to Lilium represents a significant vote of confidence in both our physical product and our business case,” said Christopher Delbr\u00fcck, CFO of Lilium. There have recently been growing doubts about the “physical product” in particular – not only because of the fire, about which Lilium does not say a word in the current press release. At the beginning of this year there was strong criticism in Germany against Lilium that the promised dates could not be kept. Aeronautical engineers calculated that Lilium was calculating with an unrealistic efficiency for the important hovering flight.<\/p>\n Baillie Gifford is unimpressed by this. “While still at an early stage, we believe this technology could have profound and far-reaching benefits in a low-carbon future and we are excited to watch Lilium\u2019s progress in the years ahead,” says Michael Pye, investment manager at Baillie Gifford, according to the Lilium announcement.<\/p>\n lilium.com<\/a>, lilium.com <\/a>(update), techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}