EHang launches 5G Intelligent Air Mobility Experience Centre as AAV operation spot in Guangzhou

EHang has part­nered with Guangzhou Devel­op­ment Dis­trict Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Invest­ment Group Co (GDDCI) to joint­ly launch a 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­tre at the Inno­va­tion Park in the Chi­nese city.

The new expe­ri­ence cen­tre is espe­cial­ly designed and devel­oped as a new oper­a­tion spot with all nec­es­sary infra­struc­tures for EHang AAVs under the 100 Air Mobil­i­ty Routes Ini­tia­tive. As EHang’s glob­al first urban air mobil­i­ty pilot city, Guangzhou has tak­en the lead in invest­ing in urban air mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture con­struc­tion to enable cit­i­zens to enjoy air mobil­i­ty expe­ri­ence in the near future.

Sev­er­al oper­a­tional flight routes have been planned and test­ed for pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion, aer­i­al sight­see­ing, aer­i­al logis­tics in the city.

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, said: “Guangzhou is EHang’s first glob­al urban air mobil­i­ty pilot city and the 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­ter has become the lat­est oper­a­tion spot under the 100 Air Mobil­i­ty Routes Ini­tia­tive.

“We will use the world’s lead­ing AAV tech­nolo­gies and com­mand-and-con­trol sys­tem to pro­vide intel­li­gent, com­pre­hen­sive solu­tions for urban air mobil­i­ty and smart city man­age­ment in Guangzhou. We expect to build Guangzhou into a mod­el city for UAM and have plans to extend it to more cities across the coun­try and world­wide.”

As the new­ly-launched oper­a­tion spot espe­cial­ly designed and devel­oped for EHang AAVs, the 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­tre cov­ers an area of 2,000 square meters and is equipped with a rooftop take-off and land­ing ver­ti­port as well as a hangar for pow­er charg­ing and main­te­nance.

Pow­ered by the 5G telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works, it relies on the EHang’s com­mand-and-con­trol sys­tem plat­form to enable tri­al oper­a­tions for the EH216, Fal­con B and oth­er eVTOL mod­els, for var­i­ous UAM and smart city man­age­ment appli­ca­tions.

Fur­ther­more, the 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­tre is inte­grat­ed with an Auto­mat­ic Guid­ed Vehi­cle Park­ing Garage, which pro­vides a con­ve­nient infra­struc­ture for a seam­less trans­fer expe­ri­ence in car trav­el and aer­i­al trip in the future.

EHang and GDDCI have found­ed this joint ven­ture for estab­lish­ing the 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­tre as well as local UAM route plan­ning and AAV oper­a­tions. With the UAM map­ping across four cen­tral areas in Guangzhou’s Huang­pu dis­trict, sev­er­al oper­a­tional flight routes have been planned and test­ed for pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion, aer­i­al sight­see­ing, aer­i­al logis­tics, smart city man­age­ment, etc.

Chengjiu Zhou, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of GDDCI, added: “By lever­ag­ing the 5G Intel­li­gent Air Mobil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence Cen­tre, we will devel­op an intel­li­gent air mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem inte­grat­ing the hard­ware, soft­ware, take­off and land­ing plat­form and oper­a­tion ser­vices in Huang­pu dis­trict.”