Building India’s First Electric Air Taxi: e200X PT-01 Full Walkaround | The ePlane Company

Traffic shouldn’t be a fact of life. The road between Point A and Point B doesn't need another bypass; it needs a straight line. In this walkaround, Prof. Satya Chakravarthy breaks down the engineering behind the e200X-PT01, The ePlane Company’s first full-scale, 2.2-tonne electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft prototype, designed and built in Chennai, India. From its compact 8×11 metre footprint (half the size of a basketball court) engineered to land on standard hospital and commercial helipads, to its lift-plus-cruise propulsion and custom high-energy-density aviation battery architecture, this is a look under the hood of what mid-mile urban air mobility looks like in practice. --- e200X Specifications (PT01 Baseline) Architecture: Lift-plus-cruise with patented Synergistic Lift Tech Propulsion: Dedicated vertical lift rotors + isolated forward cruise propellers Cruising Speed: 160 km/h Range: Up to 110 km per charge Footprint: 8 m × 11 m (zero-infrastructure requirement; operates from standard rooftop helipads) Gross Takeoff Weight: 2.2 tonnes Cabin Configurations: Passenger Air Taxi: 1 Pilot + 2 Passengers Air Ambulance: Integrated Patient Transport Unit (stretcher + paramedic) Urban Cargo: 200 kg payload capacity Airframe: Full carbon-fiber composite Certification Pipeline: Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Type Certification Application Acceptance About The ePlane Company Founded in 2019 and incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Incubation Cell, The ePlane Company (Ubifly Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) is India's leading deep-tech aerospace manufacturer pioneering the global transition to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). Headquartered at the 163-acre IIT Madras Discovery Campus in Thaiyur, Chennai, the company operates the nation's first and only dedicated 60,000+ square foot integrated electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototyping, manufacturing, and testing facility. The company is the first private aerospace entity in India to receive a formal Design Organisation Approval (DOA) from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for electric aircraft, and its flagship e200X vehicle is the first eVTOL accepted into the DGCA's official Type Certification pipeline. Backed by 10,000+ kilometers of cumulative physical flight testing across its ATVA and e50 technology demonstrators, ePlane specializes in high-efficiency, zero-emission aviation architectures tailored explicitly for high-density urban corridors. Utilizing its patented global "Synergistic Lift" technology, ePlane engineers its aircraft around an ultra-compact 8x11 meter footprint, removing the need for specialized vertiports and unlocking immediate rooftop scalability using standard existing municipal helipads. Backed by investors including Speciale Invest, Antares Ventures, Naval Ravikant and guided by a board of global aviation veterans, The ePlane Company is commercializing a modular airframe built to transform three key multi-billion-dollar verticals globally: high-frequency passenger Air Taxis, critical Air Ambulances, and middle-mile Urban Cargo networks. For more technical information, explore www.eplane.ai. Website: https://eplane.ai LinkedIn:   / the-eplane-company   X (Twitter): https://x.com/eplanecompany #ePlane #eVTOL #e200X #UrbanAirMobility #Aviation #ElectricAircraft #DeepTech #Aerospace #MadeInIndia #iitmadras Music licensed via Musicbed: Sync ID: MB01QJHGKYDNKTD Timestamps: 00:00 - The illusion of road-based transit 00:46 - The solution: Meet the e200X 01:01 - First look at PT-01 (Full-Scale Prototype) 01:18 - The 8×11m footprint & helipad compatibility 01:32 - Multimodal airframe: Air Taxi, Ambulance, Cargo 01:52 - Battery architecture: Not a component, the foundation 02:08 - Powertrain redundancy and thermal safety 02:33 - Lift + Cruise propulsion explained 02:44 - Speed (160 km/h), Range & Route Economics 03:05 - From combustion research to electric aviation 03:34 - The road to flight: ATVA, e50, and PT-01 04:06 - Signing off from Chennai