Eve Air Mobility Chooses “eVTOL Avionics, Flight Controls and Thermal Management System Suppliers” as Latest Providers

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has cho­sen three new sup­pli­ers for its eVTOL Air­craft, reports a press release.  Garmin will sup­ply the avion­ics for the air­craft; Lieb­herr-Aero­space the flight con­trols actu­a­tors; and Inter­galac­tic is to pro­vide the ther­mal man­age­ment sys­tem.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, com­ment­ed, “Each of our sup­pli­ers under­goes a very strin­gent review that eval­u­ates not only per­for­mance and qual­i­ty of their prod­uct, but also their ded­i­ca­tion to con­tin­u­ous improve­ment and cus­tomer sup­port and sat­is­fac­tion. We are look­ing for­ward to a long-term work­ing rela­tion­ship with each of them.” 

Garmin is to sup­ply the G3000 Inte­grat­ed Flight Deck “which fea­tures large-for­mat, light weight, high-res­o­lu­tion glass dis­plays inte­grat­ing seam­less­ly with Eve’s vehi­cle man­age­ment and flight con­trol sys­tems,” explains the release. “Tai­lored for the needs of eVTOL air­craft, the flight deck’s intu­itive touch­screen inter­face reduces pilot work­load by pro­vid­ing direct access to a full suite of avion­ics capa­bil­i­ties includ­ing an inte­grat­ed flight man­age­ment sys­tem, NAV/COM radios, transpon­der, audio man­age­ment and access to a breadth of appli­ca­tions includ­ing check­lists, charts, syn­op­tics, and full-fea­tured maps.”

Lieb­herr will devel­op electro­mechan­i­cal actu­a­tors (EMA) for the fly-by-wire flight con­trols of Eve’s eVTOL. The release con­tin­ues, “Lieb­herr is well known for their exper­tise in the man­u­fac­tur­ing of pre­ci­sion gears and depend­able actu­a­tion, cru­cial for this type of tech­nol­o­gy. The actu­a­tors will be pow­ered by the aircraft’s elec­tri­cal sys­tem and the tech­nol­o­gy will ensure high per­for­mance, con­fig­ura­bil­i­ty and eas­i­er main­te­nance.”

While Inter­galac­tic is to pro­vide the ther­mal man­age­ment sys­tem to main­tain an opti­mal tem­per­a­ture range for equip­ment includ­ing bat­ter­ies and oth­er elec­tron­ic com­po­nents.  The sys­tem also helps ensure a com­fort­able tem­per­a­ture inside the cab­in of the air­craft.

These three new sup­pli­ers are in addi­tion to the three that were announced at the Paris Air Show in June. Nidec Aero­space, a joint ven­ture between Japan’s Nidec Cor­po­ra­tion and Brazil’s Embraer, will pro­vide the elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem, while BAE Sys­tems is to sup­ply the ener­gy stor­age sys­tem and DUC Hélices Pro­pellers the rotors and pro­pellers.

Eve’s eVTOL air­craft uses a lift+cruise con­fig­u­ra­tion with eight ded­i­cat­ed pro­pellers for ver­ti­cal flight and fixed wings to fly on cruise, with no change in the posi­tion of these com­po­nents dur­ing flight. The release points out, “The lat­est con­cept includes an elec­tric push­er pow­ered by dual elec­tric motors that pro­vide propul­sion redun­dan­cy while ensur­ing high per­for­mance and safe­ty. While offer­ing numer­ous advan­tages includ­ing low­er cost of oper­a­tion, few­er parts, opti­mised struc­tures and sys­tems, it has been devel­oped to offer effi­cient thrust with low sound.”

In July, Eve announced a pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty to be locat­ed in the city of Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The com­pa­ny has already start­ed assem­bly of its first full-scale eVTOL pro­to­type, to be fol­lowed by a tri­al cam­paign next year. Eve Air Mobility’s eVTOL is sched­uled to enter into ser­vice in 2026.

Con­cur­rent­ly, Eve is devel­op­ing “a com­pre­hen­sive port­fo­lio of agnos­tic ser­vice and oper­a­tions solu­tions, includ­ing a unique Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment soft­ware to opti­mise and scale UAM oper­a­tions world­wide.”

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