CHINA: AutoFlight transports spring tea in trial using its CarryAll two-ton class eVTOL aircraft

AUTOFLIGHT has suc­cess­ful­ly trans­port­ed spring tea over moun­tain­ous ter­rain in Chi­na in just 37 min­utes, using its autonomous and unmanned Car­ryAll eVTOL air­craft.

The tri­al took place between Anshun and Guiyang, two cities in the Chi­nese province of Guizhou which are approx­i­mate­ly 120km apart. The 37-minute jour­ney is a sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment over road trans­porta­tion in the region, where wind­ing moun­tain roads make time­ly deliv­ery a per­sis­tent chal­lenge.

Fol­low­ing the eVTOL air trans­fer, the fresh tea was trans­port­ed by a logis­tics com­pa­ny via high-speed rail for long‑haul deliv­ery from Guiyang to Shang­hai, cov­er­ing a dis­tance of near­ly 2,000 kilo­me­ters.

The inte­grat­ed “eVTOL + high-speed rail” mod­el enabled same-day deliv­ery, bring­ing fresh­ly picked tea from remote west­ern moun­tain plan­ta­tions to con­sumers in major east­ern cities with­in 24 hours, pre­serv­ing opti­mal fresh­ness and fla­vor.

Li Yun, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer of Aut­oFlight, said: This inno­v­a­tive ‘autonomous eVTOL air trans­fer + high-speed rail trunk line’ mod­el breaks logis­tics bot­tle­necks in high-alti­tude moun­tain­ous areas.

“Aut­oFlight will join hands with more part­ners to extend this effi­cient, green autonomous car­go mod­el to more spe­cial­ty agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­ing areas. This will help more high-qual­i­ty local agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts reach nation­al mar­kets quick­ly, dri­ving region­al indus­tri­al upgrad­ing and rur­al revi­tal­iza­tion.”

Core Advan­tages of the Autonomous eVTOL Solu­tion

• Autonomous Flight Capa­bil­i­ty: No onboard pilot need­ed, enhanc­ing safe­ty and oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy for car­go trans­port
• High-Speed Per­for­mance: 37 min­utes for the 120km moun­tain cross­ing, cut­ting tran­sit time by hours com­pared to tra­di­tion­al ground trans­port
• Fresh­ness Preser­va­tion: Short­ened in-tran­sit time pre­serves the unique, crisp taste and aro­mat­ic notes of pre­mi­um spring tea
• Eco-Friend­ly: All-elec­tric pow­ered, zero oper­a­tional emis­sions and low noise, align­ing with sus­tain­able devel­op­ment goals
• High Flex­i­bil­i­ty: Ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing capa­bil­i­ty, no run­way required for point-to-point direct deliv­ery

The Car­ryAll (V2000CG) is the world’s first 2‑ton-class eVTOL air­craft to obtain Type Cer­tifi­cate (TC), Pro­duc­tion Cer­tifi­cate (PC) and Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate (AC) from the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC). As a ful­ly autonomous unmanned car­go air­craft, it boasts excep­tion­al per­for­mance for a wide range of logis­tics sce­nar­ios:

• Max­i­mum pay­load: 400kg
• Max­i­mum range: up to 200km
• Cruise speed: approx­i­mate­ly 180km/h
• Ide­al for urban logis­tics, emer­gency mate­r­i­al deliv­ery, agri­cul­tur­al cold chain trans­port and remote area car­go ser­vices

AutoFlight’s car­go eVTOL mod­els have con­duct­ed flight oper­a­tions in real-world sce­nar­ios, includ­ing off­shore oil plat­forms, inter­ci­ty agri­cul­tur­al prod­uct trans­porta­tion, and emer­gency fire-fight­ing, col­lab­o­rat­ing with glob­al cus­tomers to advance the com­mer­cial­iza­tion process of eVTOL.

In addi­tion, its 6‑seat pas­sen­ger eVTOL mod­el V2000EM Pros­per­i­ty is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing civ­il avi­a­tion air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) and has entered the Phase IV com­pli­ance ver­i­fi­ca­tion stage.