EHang, Gotion High-Tech Join Forces “to Power the Future of Low-Altitude Economy”

EHang announced this week an expan­sion of its part­ner­ship with Gotion High-Tech, an inno­va­tor of pow­er bat­tery solu­tions, reports a press release. This builds on a pow­er sys­tem frame­work agree­ment signed in Decem­ber 2023.

Under the “upgrad­ed part­ner­ship,” the two par­ties will advance the devel­op­ment of pow­er sys­tems for EHang’s EH216 series of autonomous air­craft, with plans to extend their col­lab­o­ra­tion to future air­craft mod­els. This will also con­tribute “to the high-qual­i­ty devel­op­ment of the low-alti­tude econ­o­my (LAE) and deliv­er a cus­tomised bat­tery solu­tion tai­lored for the EH216 series, explains the release. 

At the core of the col­lab­o­ra­tion is Gotion’s new­ly devel­oped 46-series cylin­dri­cal bat­tery cell that offers high ener­gy den­si­ty and robust pow­er out­put.

Gotion’s 46-series cylin­dri­cal bat­tery cell (cred­it: Gotion High-Tech)

The release explains, “The next-gen­er­a­tion bat­tery sys­tem is expect­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhance the 216 eVTOL in flight range, thrust per­for­mance and oper­a­tional safe­ty, fur­ther improv­ing the aircraft’s effi­cien­cy across a vari­ety of use cas­es and strength­en­ing its readi­ness for future scaled com­mer­cial deploy­ment.”

Such efforts will help accel­er­ate the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty and low-alti­tude net­works. Gotion’s expe­ri­ence in stan­dard­ised, plat­form-based bat­tery sys­tems, is expect­ed “to be a key enabler of EHang’s long-term com­pet­i­tive­ness in the glob­al mar­ket,” con­tin­ues the release.

Changqing Yan, COO of Gotion’s Asia-Pacif­ic Busi­ness Divi­sion, com­ment­ed, “The low-alti­tude econ­o­my is an impor­tant and rapid­ly emerg­ing sec­tor, and EHang’s pio­neer­ing posi­tion and remark­able achieve­ments in the eVTOL space are wide­ly recog­nised.”

He con­tin­ued, “Our part­ner­ship enables the inte­gra­tion of our high-per­for­mance bat­tery sys­tem with EHang’s air­craft, address­ing cur­rent upgrade needs, while lay­ing a sol­id foun­da­tion for next-gen­er­a­tion air mobil­i­ty solu­tions.”

Shuai Feng, Chang’s Senior VP of EHang, added, “Gotion’s advanced 46-series cylin­dri­cal cell tech­nol­o­gy will sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhance the per­for­mance of our EH216 series, push­ing the per­for­mance bound­aries even fur­ther. This is not just an upgrade in ener­gy, but offers dis­rup­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties for the next gen­er­a­tion of eVTOL air­craft.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion marks an impor­tant mile­stone in EHang’s con­tin­ued inno­va­tion of air­craft pow­er sys­tems. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.ehang.com

https://www.gotion.com/

(Top image: EHang, Gotion Mem­bers at sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny)

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