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Prestige Aviation places largest pre-order for EHang’s EH216 eVTOL aircraft in Asia at the Indonesia International Motor Show

EHang has announced a pre-order for 100 of its EH216 eVTOL air­craft from Pres­tige Avi­a­tion in Indone­sia, at an online con­tract sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny dur­ing the Indone­sia Inter­na­tion­al Motor Show 2022 (IIMS 2022). 

This is the largest pre-order EHang has received so far for its pas­sen­ger-grade AAVs in Asia. Pres­tige Avi­a­tion pre­vi­ous­ly pur­chased one EH216 from EHang, and the two par­ties joint­ly con­duct­ed a debut flight demon­stra­tion for aer­i­al sight­see­ing in Bali, Indone­sia in 2021.

Bam­bang Soe­satyo, Chair­man of the People’s Con­sul­ta­tive Assem­bly Repub­lic Indone­sia, attend­ed the sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny and said: “I am pleased to wit­ness fur­ther rein­force­ment of col­lab­o­ra­tion between Pres­tige and EHang as well as their joint efforts to pro­mote a broad­er appli­ca­tion of solu­tions for UAM in the Indone­sian mar­ket. 

“Com­ing next, we hope to seek break­throughs in infra­struc­ture, air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and oth­er relat­ed fields.”

Rudy Sal­im, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Pres­tige Avi­a­tion, said: “EHang has long been a cru­cial part­ner for Pres­tige Avi­a­tion and as a fore­run­ner of Indonesia’s sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion devel­op­ments, we hope to address the public’s need for aer­i­al trans­porta­tion. 

“We are ready to sup­port the Indone­sian new cap­i­tal Nusantara’s Smart City ini­tia­tive with EH216 AAVs as Indone­sia is an arch­i­pel­ag­ic coun­try with more than 17,000 islands with­in its bor­ders. 

“There­fore, a new trans­porta­tion mode that can facil­i­tate inter-island mobil­i­ty will undoubt­ed­ly help region­al economies to grow, assist­ed by low cost when com­pared to oth­er con­ven­tion­al land routes. 

“We will join hands with EHang to bring safe, effi­cient, eco­nom­i­cal and eco-friend­ly trans­port solu­tions to facil­i­tate inter-island mobil­i­ty and oth­er sce­nar­ios in Indone­sia.”

Hu Huazhi, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang attend­ed the online cer­e­mo­ny, and said: “We sin­cere­ly appre­ci­ate all the sup­port and recog­ni­tion of Pres­tige Avi­a­tion and our expand­ing net­work of part­ners, which inspire EHang to fur­ther expand our glob­al mar­ket. 

“We will con­tin­ue our in-depth col­lab­o­ra­tion with Pres­tige Avi­a­tion on UAM in Indone­sia, and believe that as the Region­al Com­pre­hen­sive Eco­nom­ic Part­ner­ship brings favor­able poli­cies to inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion, we will fur­ther accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of UAM in the region to ben­e­fit the peo­ple with cut­ting-edge AAV tech­nolo­gies.”

This order is the cul­mi­na­tion of an EH 216 eVTOL air­craft five-minute flight demon­stra­tion in Novem­ber 2021 for aer­i­al sight­see­ing at the Vil­la Black­stone Beach in Bali, Indone­sia, in coop­er­a­tion with Pres­tige Avi­a­tion. 

Pri­or to the flight demo, the Direc­torate Gen­er­al of Civ­il Avi­a­tion of the Repub­lic of Indone­sia issued the Spe­cial Cer­tifi­cate of Air­wor­thi­ness for the EHang 216 AAV, enabling it to be Indonesia’s first pas­sen­ger-grade AAV approved for a pub­lic unmanned flight demo. 

Ear­li­er this month, eVTOL Insights exclu­sive­ly revealed that EHang would become the first eVTOL air­craft com­pa­ny to launch urban air mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions in Thai­land, after it announced a major part­ner­ship with Charoen Pokp­hand Group.

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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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