Lilium in the crisis: bankruptcy and uncertain future for flight taxi dreams!

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Lilium again registers bankruptcy because financial rescue fails. Opportunities for the future uncertain, 1,000 employees worry about salary.

Lilium in the crisis: bankruptcy and uncertain future for flight taxi dreams!

The German electric aircraft manufacturer Lilium is faced with a deep financial abyss. After a failed rescue operation, the company has now registered bankruptcy for the second time, such as oe24.at reported. A trendy investor consortium had promised 200 million euros to save the start-up, but these funds are not available. The company announced in a narrow message that the necessary financing options did not come about, which sealed the fate of Lilium. With the loss of 1.5 billion euros in investor capital, since it was founded in 2015, the air taxi dreams of the company are seriously at risk.

Uncertain future for Lilium

The situation was still described as tense in February, since the Slovak entrepreneur Marian Boček was supposedly ready to provide 150 million euros for a short -term rescue, such as n-tv.de reported. But this help also seems problematic, because the funds have not yet been received in the account, which brings the future of the company into even greater danger. First, Lilium had registered bankruptcy in October in October before there was hope in December when a purchase contract was signed for business assets. Now the latest reports indicate that neither Boček's funds nor the help of other investors have actually flowed.

The ambitions of Lilium to revolutionize air traffic with its electrical vertical stars are on the brink. The development process was expensive and intense, and despite the great hope that the financing had aroused at the beginning, Lilium is now forced to hire the company after the rescue attempts have failed miserably. The question remains whether Lilium can recover from this setback or whether the story will go down in the annals of the German start-up scene as a failed technology innovation.