{"id":19388,"date":"2026-05-22T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19388\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:43:10","slug":"igetech-evtol-air-taxi-dassault-systemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19388\/","title":{"rendered":"IGeTECH: evtol air taxi | Dassault Syst\u00e8mes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average driver in the Greek city of Thessaloniki spends around <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gtp.gr\/2025\/10\/06\/traffic-congestion-in-athens-and-thessaloniki-calls-for-policy-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" action=\"external_link\" category=\"exit\" label=\"https:\/\/news.gtp.gr\/2025\/10\/06\/traffic-congestion-in-athens-and-thessaloniki-calls-for-policy-upgrade\/\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">80 hours per year waiting in traffic<\/a>. In Athens, it\u2019s even higher, at 111 hours. With\u00a0the number of tourists visiting Greece rising each year, the problem is only set to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle the challenge, pioneering Greek start-up IGeTECH has developed Hummingbird, an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle designed to revolutionize the way people travel over short distances. Compact and efficient, Hummingbird is a fully autonomous single-seater air taxi that can be flown without the need for a pilot\u2019s license, since it only operates on pre-defined routes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were inspired by the challenges of urban congestion,\u201d said\u00a0Irakleia Palaska, IGeTECH\u2019s managing director and co-founder. \u201cIn big cities like Thessaloniki, traffic jams are part of daily life. If someone is in a hurry to go from the airport to the port for a meeting, it can take an hour by taxi. With Hummingbird, it would take just six minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every part of Hummingbird \u2013 from its battery system and charger, to its aerodynamic body \u2013 was designed by IGeTECH\u2019s engineers from scratch.\u00a0This approach ensured the team had total control over how their eVTOL would perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battery was especially important because it needed to occupy minimal space to allow room for the passenger and luggage,\u201d Palaska said. \u201cEvery detail was considered \u2013 because if you want to revolutionize travel, you must design around people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To bring their design vision to reality, IGeTECH deployed Dassault Syst\u00e8mes\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ds.com\/cloud\" action=\"internal_link\" category=\"navigation\" label=\"https:\/\/www.3ds.com\/cloud\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"014d300d-679c-474c-8792-1fcd539383ed\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"3DEXPERIENCE Platform on the Cloud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud<\/a>, including CATIA for design and ENOVIA for project and product data management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average driver in the Greek city of Thessaloniki spends around 80 hours per year waiting in traffic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13061],"tags":[14654,14650,1400,4664,8057,14653,14195,14655,14649,14648,14652,14651],"class_list":["post-19388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dassault-systemes","tag-advanced-air-mobility","tag-air-taxi","tag-aircraft","tag-dassault","tag-dassault-systemes","tag-electric-air-taxi","tag-electric-aircraft","tag-electric-vertical-take-off-and-landing","tag-evtol","tag-evtol-air-taxi","tag-flying-taxi","tag-urban-air-mobility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}