Lilium is flying full electric and it uses the best available Silicon Anode battery technology (SA-tech). It is designed by Inonblox, the cells are produced by Customcells, and packaged by Lilium, all to meet the highest aviation standards. Over time, battery-packs with increasing range will replace the old ones, it is within in the service contracts. The old packs will be reused for a long time as an energy storage system. The operational range will be limited by market introduction up to 200 kilometers with vertical take-off and landing, or more with the possibility of conventional landing. A few years after introduction the range can grow up to 300-350 km and over time ranges can go up to 400-500 km.

The design of Lilium is amazing. When we saw the looks, we fell in love with her. Loving Lilium was born and in February 2023 we started writing articles: Loving Lilium (1) was the first. We think Lilium is a highly desirable product, because of her looks. But good looking is not enough. For becoming a successful investment, Lilium needs to become the Leading eVTOL. Good looks is only one link in a chain. But all links in the chain are important, if one breaks, the whole chain breaks.

The Lilium Pioneer Jet is a full electric aircraft, driven by 30 ducted fans (instead of rotors) with vertical take-offs and landings, like helicopters and drones. This innovation is called “eVTOL” and started in München, Bayern in 2016. Because the Lilium Pioneer Jet flies silently without any pollution, they can land at home and in cities, also on existing helicopter platforms and new vertiports.

The design of the Lilium Jet is characterized by the almost complete absence of moving parts. It is pure beauty through simplicity. It is this same simplicity that brings with it the necessary complexity, as the propulsion and control are done by 30 small tiltable, guided fan motors distributed over 4 wings. And that makes Lilium unique in the eVTOL – Airtaxi landscape.

The advantage of Lilium’s design is further scalability to a larger size, from a maximum of 7 people now to a maximum of 19 people within the same Vertiport or helicopter landing spot. Important open-rotor eVTOL competitors can transport a maximum of 4 passengers and their design appears to be less or not scalable at all.

Lilium is working on simultaneous certification by both EASA (Europe) and FAA (USA). The EASA has classified this type in the highest safety class of commercial civil aviation with a probability of less than 1 incident in 1 billion flight hours. The FAA seemed to be less strict but increased its requirements in 2022 and still needs to clarify certain requirements further in 2024.

Sebastien Borel (Lilium’s CCO) was in Geneva to show all the details. In this PropClear video, called the first Lilium Cabin Review, you can feel his enthusiasm about the Pioneer Edition. This 9 minute video gives the best experience possible for the moment. So if you haven’t visited Geneva, you can now experience Lilium yourself.