Lisa Wright on Why eVTOL Infrastructure May Matter as Much as the Aircraft

🎯 In this episode: Lisa Wright, Founder and CEO of Landings, joins Net Zero Compare to discuss the infrastructure challenge behind electric aviation and what will be required to turn eVTOL aircraft from individual technologies into functioning regional transportation networks.

The conversation explores why electric aviation depends on much more than aircraft development. Lisa explains how vertiports require suitable land, grid access, charging capacity, battery cooling, permitting, and operational infrastructure. Landings is focusing on smaller, lower-cost sites that can form connected regional networks rather than isolated flagship facilities. A major focus is energy infrastructure. Lisa discusses why securing enough electrical capacity can be more difficult than finding land, particularly in rural and remote areas. Grid connections, solar generation, and battery storage could work together to support aircraft charging, with storage helping manage short periods of high power demand. The episode also looks at shared infrastructure. Landings is exploring sites where charging systems could serve eVTOLs alongside municipal vehicles, commercial fleets, and other electric transport, helping improve site economics before aviation traffic reaches scale. Lisa also discusses the wider sustainability questions surrounding electric aviation. The overall impact depends not only on eliminating direct fuel combustion, but also on electricity sources, construction materials, batteries, infrastructure utilization, and the type of journey being replaced. Landings is also examining modular construction and ways to reduce reliance on concrete. The conversation explores early use cases including medical transport, emergency response, logistics, and regional connectivity, particularly in areas where long ground journeys create operational challenges. Community acceptance, permitting, noise, and local partnerships are also important factors in determining where networks can develop. A key takeaway is that the future of electric aviation will depend on connected networks rather than individual aircraft or vertiports. Certification, energy availability, infrastructure, regulation, and public acceptance will all need to progress together for eVTOLs to become a reliable part of regional transportation.

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https://netzerocompare.com/podcasts/net-zero-compare-podcast/isa-wright-landings

📍 Guest: Lisa Wright, Founder and CEO of Landings

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-l-wright/

🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-kaczmarek-39a29651/

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