'We are making a two-seater eVTOL called e200 and have completed its design'

As the first-ever conference on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) recently got underway in Bangalore, India we caught up with one of its delegates Professor Satya Chakravarthy, a faculty at IIT Madras and the founder of The ePlane Company, an electric plane startup that was incubated at IIT Madras and is slated to start flying logistics cargo by 2023-24 and is looking to conduct the first passenger flights via flying taxis by 2025 that can transport both passengers and cargo. Chakravarthy does some real talk about the rise of eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) in the AAM landscape, India’s new drone policy, and regulations in India, and the opportunities this sector holds for urban air mobility and moving cargo