FIA2024: Eve Unveils “First Full-Scale eVTOL Prototype”

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has announced at the 45th Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air­show (FIA) “a sig­nif­i­cant advance­ment in the assem­bly of its first full-scale eVTOL pro­to­type,” reports a press release. The com­pa­ny has unveiled the air­craft being built in the Embraer Test Facil­i­ty of Gaviao Peixo­to, Sao Paulo State, Brazil.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, com­ment­ed, ”This is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone that under­scores our com­mit­ment to safe­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty and inno­va­tion. As we now turn our atten­tion toward the prepa­ra­tion of a rig­or­ous test­ing cam­paign, we are not just cre­at­ing an air­craft, we’re build­ing a com­pre­hen­sive ecosys­tem of solu­tions that will shape the future of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty indus­try.”

In addi­tion to the pro­to­type roll-out, Eve has also announced it’s com­plet­ed the selec­tion of the pri­ma­ry sup­pli­ers for its eVTOL air­craft as it advances towards the next phase of devel­op­ment, which includes a series of com­pre­hen­sive tri­al cam­paigns. 

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These are designed to assess every aspect of the air­craft’s oper­a­tion and per­for­mance, from flight capa­bil­i­ties to safe­ty fea­tures. The insights gained will play an impor­tant role in refin­ing the design and func­tion­al­i­ty of the craft. 

Bor­dais con­tin­ued, ”This exten­sive test­ing phase begins the next fun­da­men­tal step in our jour­ney. It ensures that our eVTOL meets the high stan­dards and expec­ta­tions we’ve set for per­for­mance and safe­ty.”

Through its rela­tion­ship with Embraer, Eve is able to take advan­tage of the 55 years of expe­ri­ence devel­op­ing, design­ing, cer­ti­fy­ing and pro­duc­ing air­craft as it devel­ops its eVTOL. Addi­tion­al­ly, cus­tomers will ben­e­fit from hav­ing access to an exist­ing glob­al net­work of ser­vice and sup­port loca­tions, crit­i­cal to ensur­ing reli­able, safe, and effi­cient oper­a­tions.

With Let­ters of Intent for 2,900 eVTOLs, Eve con­tin­ues to devel­op a com­pre­hen­sive port­fo­lio of agnos­tic ser­vices and oper­a­tions solu­tions. This includes Vec­tor, a unique Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment soft­ware designed to opti­mise and scale Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty oper­a­tions world­wide. 

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