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Eve Air Mobility Names Suppliers “for eVTOL Windows, Doors and Fuselage Components”

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty announced last week four addi­tion­al sup­pli­ers for its elec­tric eVTOL air­craft, reports a press release. KRD Luft­fahrt­tech­nik GmbH will pro­vide its KASIGLAS® poly­car­bon­ate win­dows; Late­co­ere is to sup­ply the aircraft’s doors; while, RALLC and All­tec will con­tribute fuse­lage com­po­nents.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, com­ment­ed, “Eve has assem­bled a strong list of glob­al and local sup­pli­ers with a rep­u­ta­tion for not only deliv­er­ing out­stand­ing qual­i­ty, but doing so reli­ably. These long-term rela­tion­ships will cov­er the aircraft’s entire life cycle includ­ing all pro­to­types, pro­duc­tion and after­mar­ket ser­vice and oper­a­tional sup­port.” 

Ger­many-based, KRD, will pro­vide cus­tom designed KASIGLAS win­dows, includ­ing the cock­pit and pas­sen­ger door win­dows. Each win­dow has been devel­oped for extreme dura­bil­i­ty and their poly­car­bon­ate con­struc­tion will not only min­imise the weight of each win­dow, but pro­vide addi­tion­al pro­tec­tion includ­ing increased impact resis­tance.

France-locat­ed, Late­co­ere, is to sup­ply the doors for Eve’s eVTOL air­craft. As the world’s lead­ing inde­pen­dent man­u­fac­tur­er of air­craft doors, the com­pa­ny has been laud­ed for its extreme­ly high stan­dards of safe­ty and per­for­mance. The com­pa­ny sup­ports mul­ti­ple air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers includ­ing Embraer and pro­vides design and devel­op­ment, pro­duc­tion, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and in-ser­vice sup­port for all of their doors.

Brazil-based RALLC and All­tec, are cho­sen to con­tribute var­i­ous fuse­lage com­po­nents. The for­mer is a sup­pli­er that cov­ers all stages of the man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es for struc­tur­al com­po­nents, pro­vid­ing inte­grat­ed and inno­v­a­tive solu­tions for sev­er­al aero­space com­pa­nies includ­ing Embraer.

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty eVTOL Air­craft

The lat­ter spe­cialis­es in the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of com­po­nents and sub­assem­blies in high-per­for­mance com­pos­ite mate­ri­als for the aero­nau­ti­cal, defence and secu­ri­ty mar­kets. The release explains, “With near­ly 30 years of expe­ri­ence, the com­pa­ny is also recog­nised for its exper­tise as a sup­pli­er to Embraer. All­tec will pro­vide the ther­mo­plas­tic com­pos­ite and ther­moset­ting com­pos­ite tech­nolo­gies for the eVTOL fuse­lage.”

Eve’s air­craft utilis­es 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 con­tin­ues, “The lat­est con­cept includes an elec­tric push­er pow­ered by dual elec­tric motors that pro­vide propul­sion redun­dan­cy with the goal of ensur­ing the high­est lev­els of per­for­mance and safe­ty. While offer­ing numer­ous advan­tages such as low­er cost of oper­a­tion, few­er parts, opti­mised struc­tures and sys­tems, it has been devel­oped to offer effi­cient thrust with low sound.”  

Last year, the com­pa­ny announced that its first eVTOL pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty will be locat­ed in the city of Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The com­pa­ny has begun assem­bly of its first full-scale eVTOL pro­to­type which will be fol­lowed by a test cam­paign.

Eve’s eVTOL is sched­uled to begin deliv­er­ies and enter into ser­vice in 2026. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.eveairmobility.com

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