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Latest SPAC News: Archer Aviation plans to build 250 air taxis in 2025, and NextChem awards LanzaTech an engineering contract
Archer Aviation plans to build 250 air taxis in 2025
Archer Aviation Inc (NYSE:ACHR) said it aims to make about 250 battery-electric air taxis in 2025 and scale up production in the following years, after setting a goal of getting its aircraft certified by the end of 2024.
“In our first year, we will build 250 aircraft, our second year will build 500 aircraft, our third year will build 650 aircraft and then we scale it up to around 2,000 aircraft per year,” CEO Adam Goldstein told Reuters in an interview.
READNextChem Kicks Off the Engineering Phase of Rome Hydrogen Valley and Awards LanzaTech the Process Design Contract for the Circular Ethanol Unit
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that NextChem, through its subsidiary MyRechemical, has kicked off the engineering phase of Hydrogen Valley in Rome, which is based on NextChem’s waste-to-chemical technology and has received the EU Commission grant within IPCEI HY2USE initiative, as already communicated.
NextChem has started, through MyRechemical, the engineering of waste conversion to Circular Gas™ that will be the feedstock for the ethanol and hydrogen production. In this framework, NextChem has awarded LanzaTech an engineering contract to deliver a process design package for a syngas fermentation unit to produce circular ethanol for sustainable mobility and chemicals based on its biocatalyst technology.
As announced on March 8th, 2022, LanzaTech has entered into a merger agreement with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: AMCI).
READAt the SPAC of Dawn US market futures continue to be flash dark red after a major down day saw SPAC-favorite exchange Nasdaq lose about -4% of its value leaving it running down -9.5% on the year. The sudden downturn has been somewhat personal for the administration as Trump Media (NASDAQ:DJT) itself fell about -11.5%...
Titan Acquisition Corp has filed for a $240 million SPAC IPO, aiming to focus on opportunities in the finance and tech-enabled services industry. The blank-check company intends to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “TACHU”, offering 24,000,000 units at $10.00 each, with the trust funded at 100.5%. The unit structure includes one-half of one...
Dune II (NASDAQ:IPODU) has filed for a $150 million IPO to give its young team a chance to go two-for-two with completed deals in its SPAC series. The Dune team had a tumultuous run in their first outing that eventually saw it combine with sustainable fuel developer Global Gas (OTC:HGAS) in 2023. Dune I was...
Siddhi Acquisition Corp has filed for a $200 million SPAC backed by the consumer-focused investment firm of the same name and becomes the second new SPAC to file with Santander since the start of the year. Like Santander’s earlier IPO for Live Oak V (NASDAQ:LOKVU), Siddhi is overfunding its trust to 100.5% with $10.05 per...
At the SPAC of Dawn SPAC teams bookended this past weekend with the filing of three new SPACs, collectively seeking to raise $640 million in capital. The new S-1 for Titan Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:TACHU) puts Cantor Fitzgerald back in the hunt among top underwriters for new SPACs filed in 2025. Two SPACs are also seeking...