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It’s a single-pilot plane that is particularly adapted to middle-range routes and requires little investment in new infrastructure to operate. And just last week, DHL announced the acquisition of 12 battery-powered long-range aircraft from Seattle-based Eviation.Įviation’s Alice aircraft is not uncrewed though. In July, the freight forwarder teamed up with Bulgarian drone manufacturer Dronamics on medium-distance, cross-border, and inter-city missions. Meanwhile, the international logistics giant has been ramping up activity in the middle-mile aerial delivery space. The parcelcopter arguably allows us to offer people in such areas a new kind of access to the flexible and, most importantly, rapid dispatch and delivery of goods. In the future, this could take the shape of deliveries of emergency medical supplies or deliveries to regions situated in a challenging geographical location. A new report from Wired into Amazon’s drone delivery program in the UK says the operation has lost over 100 employees, with insiders saying the project is collapsing inwards. We are more than convinced that the Parcelcopter has allowed us to create real added value in the field of logistics. Now, the DHL team has resigned to calling Parcelcopter an impressive (albeit expensive) “proof of concept.”Īcknowledging that the drone industry is overflowing with “unrealistic hype” as overeager entrepreneurs and established drone-based companies alike “overpromise” on their innovative technology, Jürgen Gerdes, management board member for post, e-commerce – parcel at DHL, says: DHL delivery drone program: Just a PoC for last-mile delivery?















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