EHang 216‑S eVTOL “a Highlight at Thailand’s Bangkok International Auto Show”

Social Media has been abuzz this week after doors opened on the annu­al Inter­na­tion­al Auto Show held in Bangkok, Thai­land. This is the 46th event and lasts this year from March 26th to April 6th.

The eVTOL indus­try is con­tin­u­ing to embrace the lead­ing glob­al automak­ers as its go-to bed­fel­low, so it is not sur­pris­ing that EHang decid­ed to dis­play its 216‑S autonomous air­craft at the event. Espe­cial­ly after com­plet­ing its first pas­sen­ger flight in Thai­land last Novem­ber.

Then there is the new part­ner­ship with major automak­er, Changan Auto­mo­bile, in a move to diver­si­fy EHang’s prod­uct offer­ings. The aim is to joint­ly devel­op fly­ing car-relat­ed prod­ucts by cre­at­ing an inno­v­a­tive line that will cater to the mass con­sumer mar­ket, dri­ving EHang’s entry into the next fron­tier of urban air mobil­i­ty.

Among the 36 dif­fer­ent glob­al car brands and 8 motor­cy­cle com­pa­nies exhibit­ing, EHang may look out of place, but social media from YouTube to Insta­gram, X to Tik­Tok has seized on the chance to pub­li­cise the Chi­nese eVTOL com­pa­ny as it proud­ly dis­plays in Hall 2. 

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(EHang Appears at 1.27 min­utes)

VIPs and local dig­ni­taries attend­ing the show have already tak­en time to look over the EH216‑S includ­ing on Day 1, Dr. Kulaya Tan­titemit, the first female Direc­tor-Gen­er­al of the Rev­enue Depart­ment in Thai­land. She posed for pho­tographs while sit­ting inside the craft.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the New Year has not been kind to Thailand’s auto indus­try. In the first two months total pro­duc­tion amount­ed to 222,590 units, a decrease of 19.29 per­cent. Vehi­cles export­ed amount­ed to 153,579 units, a decrease of 15.56 per­cent. The pro­duc­tion of pas­sen­ger cars, in par­tic­u­lar, plum­met­ed by 47.01, fol­low­ing this export decline.

How­ev­er, bat­tery elec­tric vehi­cle (BEV) pro­duc­tion has risen by 7,574 units, a 60.09 per­cent increase year-on-year.

Pho­tos tak­en of the EH216‑S at the Bangkok Auto Show

Mean­while, 2025 is already prov­ing to be a high­ly suc­cess­ful year for EHang. 

On March 21st, the com­pa­ny released a press release, stat­ing it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Guangzhou Bank to accel­er­ate the Low-Alti­tude Econ­o­my with a RMB2 Bil­lion Intend­ed Cred­it. 

The part­ner­ship will pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive finan­cial sup­port to EHang, includ­ing cred­it facil­i­ties, set­tle­ment and cash man­age­ment as well as indus­try chain finan­cial ser­vices. This will help the com­pa­ny to enhance its R&D, man­u­fac­tur­ing, sales and oper­a­tional capa­bil­i­ties with­in the low-alti­tude sec­tor.

Two days ear­li­er, EHang had announced its Q4 and FY2024 results which includ­ed record-high rev­enues; its first fis­cal year of non-GAAP prof­itabil­i­ty; and eyes on a whop­ping 97 per­cent growth dur­ing 2025. 

The com­pa­ny referred to 2024 “as a remark­able year” with new, even greater ambi­tions of tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and prod­uct devel­op­ment mov­ing for­ward. 

Dr. Kulaya Tan­titemit

These plans include:- 

: A sig­nif­i­cant break­through with the world’s first eVTOL sol­id-state lithi­um bat­tery test flight with col­lab­o­ra­tion from Shen­zhen Inx Ener­gy Tech­nol­o­gy. Spe­cial­iz­ing in the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of high-ener­gy den­si­ty (480Wh/kg) and high-safe­ty lithi­um met­al sol­id-state bat­ter­ies, this part­ner­ship has enhanced the EH216‑S flight endurance by 90 per­cent, allow­ing it to reach an impres­sive 48 or more min­utes flight time.

: A part­ner­ship with Enpow­er to co-devel­op next-gen­er­a­tion elec­tric motors and motor con­trollers to pro­pel EHang eVTOLs to new heights, tar­get­ing an inte­grat­ed design of elec­tric motors and motor con­trollers with lighter weight, high­er pow­er den­si­ty, supe­ri­or cool­ing per­for­mance and broad­er com­pat­i­bil­i­ty across EHang’s eVTOL range.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

(Images: EHang)

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