Contrary to the many objections here that the automatic synchronization into English is worthless: Folks, this is a shining marvelof these new AI-tools, i.e. the voices match the German voices, and the translation seems almost perfect.

I'm an interested viewer from California, and have been following Lilium for many years. It's really exciting to see how close the jet is to a finished model, and how incredibly incremental all the testing must be. I'm looking forward to the time we can fly in Lilium between municipal airports from around the Los Angeles area, to San Diego, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. It's quite exciting. What's not so exciting is the automatic dubbed voices in this video. It's an acceptable translation, but still presents in a very robotic tone. We can see smiles, chuckling or laughing, excitement! But we can't hear it. You are better off with original voices and a more accurately translated subtitle. Or post both, a dubbed version and a subtitle version, and let the viewers decide which one is best for them.

Thank you for the translation! I got more out of this than the original. ❤

Very informative interview. I like that Lilium can do more ranges of flight than the other Evtols.

Happily to contribute with an investment for such a promising company.

Step by step towards the goal. I have been following Lilium for over 3 years, and a lot has changed in that time. The next few months will be exciting.

one thing i have learned from my investments :D wherever thelen is involved, short the stock!

Look ... Yay to all of You ... but ... We don't want to see rich people talking to each other about how great they all are. We want videos of the Jet. It's the only important thing here.

Don't see any finance or engineering majors in the comments, here! This is most exciting civilian aircraft I've ever seen fly. This particular design is not just beautiful, it dwarfs the competitors, which are little more than overgrown quad - copters. And, the investor pedigree is HUGELY important! No Money = No Play

This auto-translations sound sooo creepy. Please always provide an option to return to original language.

25:46 ". . . we are without competition".

Go Lilium Go!!! ✌✌

All these comments from people "Demanding" to see a flying plane with a pilot just reminds me of Tesla's journey. At least Lillium doesn't have major competitors shorting them. But people! Honestly! Calm down, they've gone through 7 actual flying prototypes, they have now been given licencing approval to design a production model, they have nearly completed the first test build and the second flying test will be ready by end of the year, they are well funded with partnerships with huge experience in the aviation industry and the prices of batteries keeps falling as capacity improves. They are dealing with way less hurdles than Tesla had to deal with. The physical world of aviation needs proper testing, its not a software app.

Gibt es das Interview auch auf Deutsch?

Why is speed a concern for a shorter-distance air commute? The main issue isn't how fast the eVTOL flies, but rather how quickly passengers can board the air taxi without long waits, similar to the wait times at airports. For short distances, the speed of the air taxi is less relevant.

Loving Lilium

sorry if this seems silly but its very easy to do a translation with lipsync now with AI happy to help :) I love the lilium i saw it in person in the uk

Interviews are all very nice but we are all waiting for flight demonstrations with a full-sized manned craft.

Lilium ❤

My concern with Lillium for several years has been the lack of demonstration of adequate lift. Building fancy looking finished luxury mockups before anything can fly only underlines that perception. You seem more concerned with selling an illusion than demonstrating the merits.

Go Lilium! when will be the manned test happen ? which month ?

Lilium seems to be a very high ranked gamble. A lot of expensive people have been hired to give the feeling that this cant be a scam, but Physics tell a different Story

innerdeutsche Flüge mit Lilium abdecken....perfekt. Aber ihr müsst jetzt bald auf den Markt. Das dauert sonst zu lange

When departing regional airports or taking heavy loads in an emergency, will short take - offs be implemented? This would obviously increase the weight of the landing gear, so maybe a dolly of sorts could be implemented for the ground roll. Even better: A dolly that accelerates the jet to the rotation speed. You could even make one that rolls with the aircraft in a crabbed, or feathered orientation to the wind for maximum efficiency when crosswinds are present (almost always)

Why on Earth does that thing behind them need its wings supported on jacks? If it is that weak how will it ever cope with the rigours of real world VTOL operations? More generally all we have here is the standard high level design rhetoric. When we cut to the chase we hear “the only thing we need is better batteries”. Duh. Then, “you just have to wait for that, they are coming”. Well, this is the guy who just a year ago was “100% confident” the Lilium jet would be in commercial service by next year. A year later they still don’t have a battery? This is the company that claims to be assembling the prototype that will be certified, in other words the virtually finalised design. In fact, according to Lilium in 2015, the batteries were coming to enable commercial service in 2019. Didn’t happen, still hasn’t. Now the claim is 2026, also won’t happen. They are promoting a totally unjustified optimism in battery performance. The language is extremely misleading, quote: “battery capacity is statistically improving 4.5% per year”. Sure. Maybe. Larger batteries, so what? The parameter that counts for electric flight is not capacity per se but energy per kg of battery pack. That is not improving 4.5% per year. Certainly not in any kind of battery suitable for aviation. More like per decade at this stage. Then: “…and if you just extrapolate that”. Well if we just extrapolated ICE efficiency improvements during the ‘80s until now we would have exceeded what is thermodynamically possible already, but it doesn’t work like that. And it doesn’t work like that for batteries either. So much for rhetoric. How about some hard data. The single most important question is: what is the specific energy of the battery pack right now, that must be designed and ready for installation IF the conforming prototype has genuinely been under construction for over 7 months now? What is that simple number? Lilium’s continuing avoidance of this key fact speaks volumes.

German engineering is no joke and those guys have enourmous experience

Can the word "jet" include systems without combustion? I absolutely love the Lilium Jet, but the terminology is a bit confusing imo. Isn't more like a ducted fan? Anyway, I can't wait to see these fly on a regular basis!

I just heard from the news that the manned flight test, which was held at the end of the year, has been postponed to early 25 years. Why aren't you keeping your promises with shareholders? It is said that the completion of the msn1 aircraft will be completed by the end of June, but there is still no news. The company is losing trust more and more.'

The questions is, MSN2 is ready? Show that it can lift even 2 cm and you can gain confidence with the investors , but maybe is not your objective...

This is crunch time. They desperately require ongoing funding and viable options seem to be diminishing. It's said that Fisker was in a similar situation. before it collapsed.

Munro just reported a new battery from Sakuu, he is apparently very sold.

私は日本で待ってます！日本の空を飛ぶ法律は厳しいですが待ってます。

💪🏻 electrify the skies, @Lilium !! I posted this to X re your comments on eVTOL safety as the safer all electric aviation becomes, the brighter the future 💫💫💫🔥🔥🔥 Keep up the amazing work!

Looking at that wing I feel like if the front part of the inlets would be fixed to the wing, and just the rest of the electric jets would turn for vertical thrust, that could add to the wings' rigidity.

the audio is not in sync with the video

would have been interesting to see the 1st flight test

OMG I can not even survive the first 7 minutes of watching so much BS to anyone who has the slightest idea an practical experience with aviation and propulsion and know a bit about Daniel Wiegands who is not an aviation engineer unless you call anyone who quit his studies after a few semester an engineer. I am not saying that person without a degree is unable to do great work in aviation, but I am allergic to plain lies. They call a ducted fan a jet, so my blow dyer is a jet? If their "jet" is so much more efficient, than their "less good" but actually flying competitors, why can't their way superious conecpt demo a flight over 100 km with only a single person on board, not 5 or 7 as promised? If they could show that I would start to respect them but that never happens and this is just getting more absurd every year. Í hope none of the investors they are targeting has a degree in physics or aeronautics, else this is massively fireing backwards.

Why plantier dropped lilium? Is it because of massive diluting stock?

so complenentary

A friendly, the investor, interviewing the company is just advertising and marketing. Need to prove it can fly with load the distances needed. It is pointless creating your own batteries when CATL have considerably better ones. The competitors are proving through flight and leaving Lilium behind...

Maybe 300 range someday?

Show us a flying one with a pilot on board!. If you do that i consider buying stocks in your company. so far too much talk and too little reality.

Why don't you make a full sized craft and prove it can lift its own battery before bragging about range?

Great excuse to get further funding: waiting on better batteries till 2040 - 2050 LOL

I'm waiting for this tech becomes mature enough, I might buy one in the future.

Nice discussion and I have been a fan of Lilium for years. However, I find unacceptable that a public company listed on NASDAQ doesn't record the interview on English and uses automatic translation. You want to attract global stakeholders, right?

Lilium is the kind of stock that will make millionaires. Like the IBM stories from the 80s

The translation is amazing and I imagine that the technology retains the voice of the original speaker?

Lillium's made a beautiful mockup and they do have an impressive flying scale model-it's cool. The full-size prototype that flies with a pilot on board is nowhere in sight and hype seems to have taken over. I hope they succeed and at least show us they have begun building a full-size aircraft soon.

Sound not synchronised

Less talkie more showie.

blablabla-gravitation is hard and physics is mercyless

This aircraft isn't going into space. I've never seen more testing on a vehicle than this. What is the current schedule for Lilium to actually begin offering flights to paying customers? I suspect most people posting here are also investors.

This interview did not pose any challenging questions - all softball questions, far too uncritical and obvious. For example, no question regarding the very poor share price performance of Lilium in recent years. Why not?

wo gibts das interview in originalsprache?

how can something with that many small fans be energy efficient?

Their CEO looks like a confused boomer 👴

If you want to watch the original video in German with English subtitles, go to; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7lnmMmYzdzSmp8.html

It’s Not A ‘Jet’ !!

Have seen this before. Nothing new. Same old Same old. Sales talk. Little more. 3:47 Classic air taxi industry??? 10 - 20 miles on demand. 5 to 10 min flight time, but market is small ??? Save little time with it ??? Then why bother ??? No market for this any time soon it seems. Ahhh 4:29 They talk about a different business model, but its not really that different. Regional aviation ??? That's a captured market already. This space will be extremely competitive with new electric aircraft coming soon, that will cost considerably less to purchase than its 7 to 10 million dollar price tag and cost considerably less to operate than EVTOL, carry more passengers and fly much further. Apart from the VTOL component, this type of aircraft will likely be disadvantaged in near every other aspect against regular regional electric aircraft. 26:48 They are focusing on the 85% market segment. i.e. mainstream market regional air mobility market. i.e. Regional aviation market, which will be an extremely competitive market. They will have their work cut out given the cost of this specific aircraft and other limiting factors as mentioned.

interview is interesting but pointless when you constantly dilute shareholders that beleive in your vision.

Beautiful jet! Accept Jesus :)

What is the carbon footprint of an EV battery?

A lot of untruthful statements such as "open rotors don't work at ... height' or at the quite low speeds involved here - totally wrong, the drag of the ducting disadvantages 'jets' like this at almost any speed above stall only physical constraints justify ducted fans not cruise efficiency for sure. The aircraft is a misconception and a bloated mess for so few seats plus being s deathtrap if running out of power in flight (drop like a brick and no control without thrust) it doesn't get much worse than this .

dull

24:38 "No real competition", yet they admitted they're competing in the 85% market space of regional aviation, as they admitted there's little money to be made from short hops. On top of which they are designing a VTOL aircraft not well suited to regional aviation, because it can only take off and land vertically, thus using more power per unit distance travelled and having less range and passenger carrying capacity and greater cost per seat, per mile than an ESTOL and conventional electric aircraft will have. Yet they say there's no real competition. Who are they trying to kid ??? 🤣🤣🤣

no range.