Lilium (company)

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Lilium GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2015
Seat Weßling , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Daniel Wiegand
Number of employees 400
Branch Aerospace
Website lilium.com
Status: July 24, 2020

The Lilium GmbH , based in Wessling (near Munich) is a German up start ; The only product so far is the Lilium Jet , a 36-engine, electrically powered, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), which is currently in development.

history

founding

Lilium (named after the German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal ) was founded in 2015 by engineers and doctoral students from the Technical University of Munich, Daniel Wiegand, Sebastian Born, Patrick Nathen and Matthias Meiner. The company is supported by ESA's Business Incubation Center Bavaria. The Lilium Jet is targeted for series production in the early 2020s.

Further development

After a second round of financing in September 2017 of $ 90 million, investments were over $ 100 million. Among the investors of the technology fund Atomico include the Skype -Gründers Niklas Zennstrom , the Chinese Internet company Tencent , the LGT Group , as well as free spirit Capital, a private investment group of entrepreneurs Frank Thelen . Around 300 employees work there. Lilium won the Early Stage Company of the Year Award in 2018, sponsored by the Cleantech Group (CTG) .

Since 2018

From May 2018 on, the car designer Frank Stephenson will be responsible for the design . Stephenson worked for European automakers and is considered an influential automobile designer . In May 2018 Arnd Mueller, previously Chief Brand Marketing Officer & General Manager at Esprit Global Image GmbH, became Vice President Marketing at Lilium. He is supposed to build the air taxi development company and its product as an international brand . In September 2018, Yann de Vries, Partner at Atomico, became the new Vice President of Lilium. Oliver Walker-Jones has been Head of Communications since December 3, 2018. He previously worked in the same position in the aerospace division at Rolls-Royce . At the beginning of 2019, Lilium held talks with the Swiss Federal Railways SBB about the use of the air taxi as a means of transport between a train station and a passenger's place of residence. A letter of intent was then signed. Christopher Delbrück has been the company's first commercial director since September 2019.

In March 2020, Lilium reported the completion of a new round of financing worth $ 240 million. A further $ 30 million was made available by financial investor Baillie Gifford a few months later. The total investment amounts to $ 375 million.

Software development base

In 2019 Lilium established a software development base in London . Carlos Morgado will set up the site. It is planned that the software for the electric air taxis will be developed there for five years.

production

November 2019, a first production hall was completed next to the company headquarters. It has an area of ​​3000 m². Another one is planned at the same location.

Corporate governance

Board

person Business area
Daniel Wiegand Co-founder and managing director (CEO)

Management Committee

person Business area
Remo Gerber Chief Commercial Officer
Patrick Nathen Co-founder & Head of Aerodynamics & Numerical Simulations
Meggy Sailer Head of Personnel Recruitment
Matthias Meiner Founder & Chief of Flight Control
Frank Stephenson Design director
Dirk Gebser deputy head of production

product

So far the only product in development is the Lilium Jet, a 36-engine, electrically powered aircraft that takes off and lands vertically .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Marinela Potor: Lilium vs. Pop.Up: Which electric plane is the high-flyer? mobility mag, April 28, 2017, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anja Reiter: Lilium small electric plane takes off. In: zeit.de. September 25, 2016, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ulrike Ebner: An electric plane for everyday life. In: Flugrevue.de. May 16, 2016, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ How ESA helps develop good ideas and new career opportunities: Lilium. In: esa.int. March 11, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Jonas Jansen: These German inventors get 90 million dollars for their flying car. In: faz.net. September 17, 2017, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Five-seater electric flying taxi makes maiden flight. In: aero.de. May 16, 2019, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ Early Stage Company of the Year. In: i3connect.com. January 23, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  9. ↑ dpa / pm: Ferrari designer designs Munich air taxi. In: muenchen.tv. April 24, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Jeremy White: Lilium's futuristic electric plane is about to get a big design overhaul. In: WIRED. May 31, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Giuseppe Rondinella: Munich air taxi start-up brings first head of marketing on board. In: horizont.net. June 12, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Christian Schewe: Yann de Vries is the new VP at Lilium. In: evertiq. September 17, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Lilium signs Oliver Walker-Jones. In: press spokesman. December 13, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  14. ^ Jürgen Stüber: Air shuttle at the train station - Lilium and Swiss Railways cooperate. In: NGIN Mobility. January 14, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Christopher Delbrück Lilium GmbH. In: finance-magazin.de. FRANKFURT BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH, accessed on February 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Media Releases: Lilium completes funding round worth more than $ 240 million. Lilium, March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Jens Flottau: Lilium Jet: carbon fiber for air taxis. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Chris Randall: London: Lilium plans software development for air taxis. electrive, June 19, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Katharina Juschkat: Production of Lilium Jet can begin. Elektronikpraxis, November 5, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Alex Davies: Lilium's Funky 'Jet' Could Make Our Dreams of Flying Cars Come True (Lilium's unconventional 'Jet' could make our dreams of flying cars come true). In: wired.com. April 20, 2017, accessed October 19, 2018 .