Eve Urban Air Mobility and Ascent to work on developing UAM ecosystem across Asia Pacific region

Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty has announced it is work­ing with Ascent to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of an urban air mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem in the Asia Pacif­ic region.

The part­ner­ship will look to advance the entry of Eve’s eVTOL air­craft into Ascen­t’s grow­ing tech­nol­o­gy plat­form, which allows cus­tomers to book char­ter flights as well as flights by the seat.

Ascent cur­rent­ly includes a data­base of air oper­a­tor part­ners that are ded­i­cat­ed to urban air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions through­out Thai­land and the Philip­pines, and is set to expand its pres­ence in the region. Addi­tion­al­ly, the par­ties expect Eve´s Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UATM) ser­vices will be ful­ly inte­grat­ed into Ascent tech­nol­o­gy to ensure secure and scal­able oper­a­tions.

Andre Stein, Pres­i­dent & CEO of Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, said:“We are pleased to announce this part­ner­ship with Ascent as it aligns with our strat­e­gy to devel­op the urban air mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem through col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts and to be a tru­ly glob­al play­er.

“Armed with Ascent’s data and plat­form, we will be well-posi­tioned to enter into the Asia Pacif­ic mar­ket. On our end, we are com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing Ascent’s growth and its ambi­tion to democ­ra­tize air mobil­i­ty.”

Ascent is Asia’s first tech­nol­o­gy-pow­ered urban air mobil­i­ty­ser­vice, was designed to make cities more con­nect­ed by mov­ing peo­ple seam­less­ly and afford­ably by air—using heli­copters today and eVTOLs in the future. With Ascent’s first-hand data and grow­ing foot­print, Eve will enhance its ded­i­cat­ed solu­tions accord­ing­ly to ensure the best air­craft to deploy and bring to mar­ket for Ascent air oper­a­tor part­ners. 

With the new part­ner­ship, the com­pa­nies will estab­lish a proof of con­cept to demon­strate the extent of Ascent’s plat­form, while offer­ing increased acces­si­bil­i­ty to a broad­er seg­ment of the Asia Pacif­ic region. Ascent will then facil­i­tate the entry into the mar­ket of Eve ded­i­cat­ed solu­tions.

Lionel Sinai-Sinel­nikoff, Founder & CEO of Ascent, said: “This part­ner­ship with Eve is a leap for­ward for Ascent toward achiev­ing our ambi­tion to democ­ra­tise sus­tain­able urban air mobil­i­ty. Join­ing forces with Eve, and by exten­sion count­ing with the active sup­port from the Embraer Group, will enable us to accel­er­ate our devel­op­ment for a larg­er impact, secure the entry of mar­ket-fit all-elec­tric air­craft, and  pro­vide safe and secure oper­a­tions at scale thanks to urban air traf­fic man­age­ment inte­gra­tion.”

Eve isn’t the first com­pa­ny in the urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket which Ascent has worked with. It announced a sim­i­lar part­ner­ship last year with Urban Aero­nau­tics, the Israeli firm cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its hydro­gen-pow­ered City­Hawk VTOL air­craft.

It’s been a busy cou­ple of weeks for Eve in the mar­ket, espe­cial­ly as the com­pa­ny announces Halo Avi­a­tion as its launch cus­tomer with an order for 200 eVTOL air­craft. This deal will focus on urban air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions in both the UK and USA, and it signed a sep­a­rate part­ner­ship with Helisul Avi­a­tion last week to focus on imple­ment­ing ser­vices in Brazil. This will include an ini­tial order of 50 eVTOL air­craft.

And at the end of last week, Zan­ite Acqui­si­tion Corp con­firmed it is in nego­ti­a­tions with Eve relat­ing to a poten­tial joint SPAC merg­er.

You can hear more about Eve’s vision for the mar­ket from David Rot­tblatt, who is the com­pa­ny’s VP of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and was a guest on the eVTOL Insights Pod­cast ear­li­er this year.