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Hyundai’s electric vertical takeoff and landing startup Supernal is moving its global headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Irvine, California, and is asking to relocate about three dozen employees, TechCrunch has learned.
The company told TechCrunch that about 5% of its total workforce — about 35 to 40 people — is being asked to relocate to California. Supernal declined to say how many people will stay in DC, but the move affects most people based there; Data from LinkedIn and a source who spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity show that Supernal has about 45 people working in the DC area.
The change comes just over a year after Supernal He opened his 28,000 square meter office In D.C., the company said at the time, it spent more than a year building its three-story office with the mantra of “designing facilities that inspire and exceed the comfort of employees’ homes.” An “engineering headquarters” in Irvine and a simultaneous “R&D headquarters” in Fremont, California.
Jaiwon Shin, president of Hyundai Motor Group and CEO of Supernal, told TechCrunch that the decision was made “to increase collaboration and communication between teams.”
Shin said the D.C. office “will remain the hub for policy and regulatory efforts.” He said the change would not affect Supernal’s target Launches eVTOL service in 2028.
Hyundai has been working on eVTOL technology for years, but announced in December 2021 that it will spin off its urban air mobility division into a separate business arm called Supernal. Since then, the effort has grown to nearly 700 employees.
The eVTOL industry is still evolving as companies try to turn the idea of flying taxis into a real business. It was Volocopter sliding on the brink of bankruptcy for months and Lilium is closed in October. Meanwhile, Toyota recently added $500 million to Joby Aviation through 2025. commercial launch.
