SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 2024: Eve Air Mobility, Yugo Sign MOU “to Explore UAM Operations in Southeast Asia”

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Yugo Glob­al Indus­tries, have announced at the Sin­ga­pore Air­show this week, a sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU), to explore the poten­tial for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) and eVTOL flights in South­east Asia, reports a press release. 

Yugo is a pri­vate avi­a­tion net­work with a focus on South­east Asia. The com­pa­ny ben­e­fits from the sup­port of two lead­ing local Air Trans­port oper­a­tors, PhilJets (Philip­pines) and Helis­tar (Cam­bo­dia). Yugo’s com­mit­ment is to sup­port region­al eVTOL inno­va­tion.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion will pri­mar­i­ly focus on the poten­tial infra­struc­ture require­ments to sup­port eVTOL oper­a­tions includ­ing reg­u­la­tions. The com­pa­nies will also analyse ser­vice cen­tre and ver­ti­port size and capa­bil­i­ties, ground han­dling and oth­er areas as need­ed.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, com­ment­ed, “Our goal is to under­stand and define a busi­ness mod­el that not only enables eVTOL flights in the region, but also advances the over­all mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem.”

Thier­ry Tea, Chair­man of Yugo, added, “We strong­ly believe that South­east Asian economies will great­ly con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of the eVTOL and UAM indus­try. Our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Eve will offer valu­able insights into the essen­tial require­ments for region­al air mobil­i­ty devel­op­ment.”

Thier­ry Tea

Eve is already work­ing with var­i­ous key stake­hold­ers across the region to col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly build the ecosys­tems and explore future oper­a­tions in mul­ti­ple coun­tries. The region’s avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture is rapid­ly advanc­ing. For exam­ple, the Philip­pines is con­struct­ing the New Mani­la Inter­na­tion­al Air­port by San Miguel Cor­po­ra­tion, while OCIC Group is build­ing Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Techo Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (TIA), set to open in 2025. To reduce car­bon emis­sions, these new air­ports, are explor­ing charg­ing sta­tions and flight routes for eVTOLs and fly­ing taxis.

Sin­ga­pore is the first mover in South­east Asia for UAM and this can pro­vide neigh­bor­ing coun­tries a tem­plate to sup­port fur­ther ecosys­tem devel­op­ment in the region.

Eve has begun con­struc­tion of its full-scale pro­to­type and is on sched­ule to begin tri­alling the air­craft lat­er on this year. It is dis­play­ing the cab­in sec­tion at this week’s Sin­ga­pore Air­show.

Back­ground

Fea­tur­ing a lift+cruise design to min­imise mov­ing parts and reduce poten­tial cost of own­er­ship, Eve’s eVTOL fea­tures eight lift rotors to assist in take­off and land­ing and one push rotor for cruise. With a range of 60 miles and trav­el­ing at speeds of 100 knots, Eve’s air­craft cur­rent­ly leads the indus­try with 2,850 orders. The air­craft is sched­uled to enter ser­vice in 2026.

In addi­tion to devel­op­ing its eVTOL air­craft, Eve is to offer its cus­tomers imme­di­ate access to an exist­ing world­wide net­work of ser­vice cen­tres through its rela­tion­ship with Embraer. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.eveairmobility.com

www.yugoplus.com

(Top image: Cred­it — Eve/Yugo)

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