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EHang and the Spanish National Police to explore use cases in emergency and security scenarios with its 216 eVTOL

EHang is work­ing with the Span­ish Nation­al Police to explore poten­tial use cas­es for AAVs in emer­gency and secu­ri­ty mis­sions.

At the Press Day of Expo­dron­i­ca at World Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Con­gress, which was held on Tues­day, EHang made the first pub­lic exhi­bi­tion of its 216 pas­sen­ger-grade AAV at the Cua­tro Vien­tos Aero­drome in Madrid.

The Chief Com­mis­sion­er of the Air Vehi­cles Unit of Span­ish Nation­al Police affirmed the col­lab­o­ra­tion with EHang, and the UPV rep­re­sent progress in deter­min­ing the best uses of AAV for polic­ing.

He said: “AAV tech­nol­o­gy holds the promise to sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve our capa­bil­i­ty in emer­gency and secu­ri­ty mis­sions, such as fire­fight­ing, access­ing con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed areas with nuclear, radi­o­log­i­cal, bac­te­ri­o­log­i­cal or chem­i­cal risks, land­ing in con­fined areas, trans­port­ing mate­r­i­al, and oth­er police ser­vices that may require agile mobil­i­ty. The appli­ca­tion of the AAV tech­nol­o­gy makes the Span­ish Nation­al Police a van­guard among police using AAV tech­nol­o­gy nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly.”

EHang and the Span­ish Nation­al Police plan to work close­ly to use the AAV in emer­gency sit­u­a­tions such as res­cue, sur­veil­lance and oth­er mis­sions that are crit­i­cal for improv­ing the qual­i­ty of life and safe­ty of cit­i­zens.

As a result of this col­lab­o­ra­tion, the Span­ish Nation­al Police and EHang, togeth­er with the Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty of Valen­cia (“UPV”), will demon­strate how to best utilise rev­o­lu­tion­ary AAV tech­nol­o­gy through tri­al flights and use case analy­sis, thus explor­ing safer and more effec­tive solu­tions for sav­ing more lives.

Vic­to­ria Xiang, the CEO of EHang Spain & LATAM, added: “The appli­ca­tion of AAVs in emer­gency, nation­al secu­ri­ty mat­ters and the fight against the pan­dem­ic is cru­cial and advan­ta­geous for the pub­lic sec­tor.

“Autonomous, sus­tain­able, and effi­cient mobil­i­ty enables the author­i­ties to exe­cute their tasks in an envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly man­ner. EHang and the Span­ish Nation­al Police will work joint­ly to lever­age this cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy to ben­e­fit cit­i­zens and soci­ety.”

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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