EHang Partners with Changchun Jingyue High-Tech Zone “to Purchase and Deploy, 41 EH216‑S Craft for eVTOL Applications in Extreme Cold Regions”

EHang recent­ly announced it is part­ner­ing with the Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee of Jingyue High-tech Indus­tri­al Devel­op­ment Zone, reports a press release. 

The two par­ties are “to devel­op a provin­cial-lev­el demon­stra­tion zone for low-alti­tude eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, inte­grat­ing indus­tri­al devel­op­ment, tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion and real-world appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios,” explains the release. 

The plat­form com­pa­ny, Jilin Aero­space Indus­try Devel­op­ment Invest­ment, has agreed as part of the agree­ment, to pur­chase 41 EH216‑S eVTOLs. 

These AAVs (autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles) will be deployed for sight­see­ing, urban emer­gency response and city traf­fic man­age­ment oper­a­tions, sup­port­ing Changchun’s vision to become a region­al leader in low-alti­tude eco­nom­ic (LAE) devel­op­ment, while accel­er­at­ing growth across Jilin Province.

Changchun is one of the pio­neer­ing cities des­ig­nat­ed for low-alti­tude air­space man­age­ment reform in Chi­na and has active­ly pro­mot­ed this sec­tor in recent years. Jingyue Hi-tech Zone serves as a core hub for the LAE. 

The region is also devel­op­ing an ‘Inte­grat­ed Aero­space Tri­ad’ indus­tri­al ecosys­tem, com­pris­ing of:- 

: A low-alti­tude smart con­nec­tiv­i­ty test site for extreme cold cli­mates.

: An aero­space major data indus­tri­al park.

: An aero­space equip­ment smart man­u­fac­tur­ing hub. 

Jingyue High-tech Indus­tri­al Devel­op­ment Zone

EHang is to con­tribute towards the plan­ning, design and con­struc­tion of the LAE cold-region test­ing site, where togeth­er with local part­ners, the com­pa­ny will con­duct tri­als and col­lab­o­rate on the devel­op­ment of air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards specif­i­cal­ly for eVTOL air­craft in cold cli­mates.  Jingyue Hi-tech Zone will pro­vide sup­port includ­ing favourable poli­cies, fund­ing and tal­ent incen­tives, while EHang is to assist in cul­ti­vat­ing tal­ent.

Hongliang Zhou, Sec­re­tary of Jingyue Hi-tech Zone, com­ment­ed, “Lever­ag­ing gov­ern­ment resources, we will active­ly facil­i­tate the deploy­ment of the EH216‑S pilot­less eVTOLs across eight 5A-rat­ed scenic des­ti­na­tions in Jilin Province for aer­i­al sight­see­ing. This will accel­er­ate the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of low-alti­tude appli­ca­tions from pas­sen­ger tourism to air mobil­i­ty.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Addi­tion­al­ly, EHang plans to part­ner to advance R&D and pro­duc­tion of com­pos­ite mate­ri­als for low-alti­tude air­craft and eVTOL com­po­nents. By lever­ag­ing the zone’s advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties and col­lab­o­rat­ing with local indus­try lead­ers, EHang aims to pro­duce light­weight, safe­ty-com­pli­ant parts tai­lored to the prac­ti­cal demands of air­crafts.”

Wang Zhao, COO of EHang, remarked, “Using Jingyue’s advan­tages includ­ing its nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment, pol­i­cy incen­tives, diverse com­mer­cial use sce­nar­ios and dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture, we will car­ry out ongo­ing test­ing to fur­ther opti­mise the aircraft’s per­for­mance, enhance its adapt­abil­i­ty and safe­ty in cold envi­ron­ments, and pio­neer a smart low-alti­tude traf­fic man­age­ment ecosys­tem.”

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(Top image: Mem­bers of the two par­ties sign­ing the agree­ment)

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