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EHang Launches Its European UAM Centre for Unmanned eVTOLs

EHang launched today its first Euro­pean Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) Cen­tre in Spain, reports a press release. Locat­ed inside the Lleida–Alguaire Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (LEDA), the Cen­tre rep­re­sents the first-of-its-kind in Europe for unmanned elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) air­craft, aid­ing the effec­tive inte­gra­tion of such air­craft oper­a­tion with air­port infra­struc­ture, air traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems, oper­a­tional pro­ce­dures and oth­er infor­ma­tion tech­nolo­gies.

Its cre­ation aris­es from a col­lab­o­ra­tion agree­ment signed between EHang and Aero­ports de Catalun­ya which enables Euro­pean avi­a­tion and air­port sec­tors to be posi­tioned at the fore­front of glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM).

Dur­ing the inau­gu­ra­tion event, Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, com­ment­ed, “The estab­lish­ment of this Cen­tre marks an impor­tant step for­ward in the company’s inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment. EHang aims to share its cer­ti­fied and val­i­dat­ed tech­nol­o­gy as well as oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence with our part­ners around the world.”

EH216‑S fly­ing at LEDA with the air­port, ver­ti­port and planes behind (Cred­it: EHang)

Marc San­glas, Sec­re­tary of Mobil­i­ty and Infra­struc­ture of Cat­alon­ian Gov­ern­ment in Spain, remarked, “We are espe­cial­ly proud of this coop­er­a­tion with EHang, and grate­ful that our inter­na­tion­al air­port has been cho­sen as their first Euro­pean UAM Cen­tre.”

Vic­to­ria Xiang, COO of EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca, added, “The Cen­tre was ini­tial­ly con­ceived for sup­port­ing the company’s oper­a­tions and activ­i­ties under SESAR-JU’s U‑ELCOME and EUSPA’s SAMVA projects. In addi­tion, we are look­ing at scal­ing its appli­ca­tion.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.ehang.com

https://sesar.eu/sesar

(Top image: EHang’s Euro­pean UAM Cen­tre inau­gu­ra­tion cer­e­mo­ny)

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