EHang Collaborates with JAC Motors, Guoxian Holdings “to Construct eVTOL Manufacturing Base in Hefei”

EHang has announced this week “a strate­gic coop­er­a­tion frame­work agree­ment” with Anhui Jianghuai Auto­mo­bile Group (JAC) and Hefei Guox­i­an Hold­ings, reports a press release. 

Under the agree­ment, the col­lab­o­ra­tion is to focus on estab­lish­ing a joint ven­ture in Hefei to include invest­ment in the con­struc­tion of a state-of-the-art man­u­fac­tur­ing base for low-alti­tude air­craft. This facil­i­ty will inte­grate advanced tech­nol­o­gy, stan­dard­i­s­a­tion and automa­tion to pro­duce autonomous eVTOLs.

The three par­ties are also to part­ner on R&D, man­u­fac­tur­ing and sales, to accel­er­ate tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments, indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion and pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty growth. This ini­tia­tive aims to fos­ter the devel­op­ment of the low-alti­tude econ­o­my and a new form of trans­porta­tion ecosys­tem.

JAC rep­re­sents one of China’s top 100 indus­tri­al enter­pris­es and will lever­age its exper­tise in tra­di­tion­al auto­mo­bile man­u­fac­tur­ing, includ­ing pro­duc­tion line process­es, advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties, effi­cient pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty and sup­ply chain man­age­ment, to scale up and auto­mate eVTOL air­craft pro­duc­tion. 

EHang is to con­tribute its cut­ting-edge R&D and pro­duc­tion tech­nolo­gies in the eVTOL air­craft sec­tor, along with an exten­sive expe­ri­ence in air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and oper­a­tions, pro­vid­ing essen­tial tech­ni­cal sup­port and assur­ance for low-alti­tude avi­a­tion in the part­ner­ship. 

Mean­while, Guox­i­an will facil­i­tate pol­i­cy sup­port and cre­ate a pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment for the coop­er­a­tion. The part­ners are to opti­mise prod­uct design and pro­duc­tion process­es by inte­grat­ing their respec­tive resources, col­lec­tive­ly accel­er­at­ing the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of future low-alti­tude avi­a­tion.

The sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny was attend­ed by key offi­cials includ­ing Fei Yuan, Stand­ing Com­mit­tee Mem­ber of Hefei Munic­i­pal Com­mit­tee and Vice May­or of Hefei; Xingchu Xiang, Chair­man, and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of JAC Motors; and Xingke Yin, Vice Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of JAC Motors. 

Xiang com­ment­ed, “We look for­ward to mass pro­duc­tion of low-alti­tude eVTOLs in Hefei and believe that our tri­lat­er­al part­ner­ship will achieve out­stand­ing results in this inno­v­a­tive-dri­ven city.”

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man, and CEO of EHang, added, “By join­ing forces, we are build­ing a strong foun­da­tion for future three-dimen­sion­al trans­porta­tion ecosys­tems. We believe the low-alti­tude econ­o­my will achieve ground­break­ing advance­ments in intel­li­gence, automa­tion and envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty, writ­ing a new chap­ter for China’s high-qual­i­ty devel­op­ment of the low-alti­tude econ­o­my in Hefei.”

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www.ehang.com

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(Top image: sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny — cred­it: EHang)

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