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Why the market potential is huge

The idea of a new transportation vehicle such as the Skycar building up a huge market in under ten years is not unreasonable - the jet engine completely superseded the old prop engine on commercial airliners within 6 years - this required extending airport runways, as well as designing, building, and selling new airplanes.

Our expectation of a huge market is also based on the idea that the Skycar will not just take market share from current forms of transportation, it will actually expand transportation use - people will take more trips, and will go to places they haven't been able to get to before.

All functions of the Skycar operation - development, manufacture, operation, maintenance and ground traffic control - will be driven by the profit motive - this is far better than mass transit projects, which invariably are not self-supporting and so increase taxes.

Why Asia is an appropriate early market

Asian countries have intense urban traffic congestion - ground traffic averages less than 5 mph in Jakarta and Bangkok - cities with more than five million people are enduring traffic congestion unimaginable in the US.

A significant number of Asians can afford to pay for better service - there will be over 1,000,000 millionaires in China by the year 2000 - India has largest middle class in the world with 150,000,000 people need to update.

Asia has natural gas, which is ideal for Skycars and even better than gasoline in Asia - by the year 2000 it is predicted that Pacific Rim demand will outstrip regional supplies of oil by nearly 3 to 1, and that 90% of the region’s oil imports will come from the Persian Gulf - the Asian countries with largest natural gas production are Indonesia, Australasia, Malaysia, and China.

Several Asian countries are spending immense sums of money to set up aviation industries - the Skycar could be designed and prototyped in US and manufactured in Asia for Asians - providing jobs as well as exports.

Asian countries do not have over-restrictive liability laws - for example, the American-made R44 helicopter is being sold in Asia but not yet in the US.

Asian topography, islands, dense forests, fast population growth, and inadequate infrastructure, both in urban and rural areas, stresses current transportation systems.

MEET THE DEVELOPERS

Paul S. Moller

President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Moller International, Inc., a Davis, California company.

Received his ME and PhD degrees at McGill University in Canada in 1961 and 1963.

Former professor at University of California at Davis in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering - founded the Aeronautical Engineering program at at that University.

Founded Moller International in 1983 to develop the Skycar.

Has invested 25 years, over $59 million, and 600,000 man-hours developing the Skycar - graduate students completed over 900 projects toward the Skycar.

His Skycar technology was granted a comprehensive US patent in May, 1992, followed by foreign patents in major industrial countries.

Moller International, Inc.

Moller has received 100 deposits to date (1995) to reserve Skycars for delivery after FAA certification.

Is currently developing the 4-passenger M400 Skycar, and has plans for 1, 2, and 6 passenger models.

Aerobotics Inc. was recently spun off to produce the Aerobot^®, their aerial robotic unmanned VTOL vehicle powered by gasoline or electricity - customers include Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) and the US Department of Defense.

The Freedom Engine company focuses on rotary engine applications and manufacturing. It is majority owned by Moller International.

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