EHang Signs MOU with Allur Group “to Jointly Expand Urban Air Mobility in Central Asia”

EHang recent­ly announced the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with the com­pa­ny Group Allur JSC, one of Kazakhstan’s largest auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing enter­pris­es, reports a press release. 

The part­ner­ship aims to joint­ly devel­op emerg­ing mar­kets for UAM in Cen­tral Asia, with full coop­er­a­tion span­ning the ecosys­tem build­ing; large-scale air­craft deploy­ment; com­mer­cial oper­a­tions; and local indus­tri­al ecosys­tem devel­op­ment. 

The Two par­ties aim to accel­er­ate the growth of the low-alti­tude econ­o­my (LAE) in Kaza­khstan and the broad­er Cen­tral Asian region.

Under the MOU, Allur Group plans to pur­chase 50 units of EHang’s EH-216 eVTOLs in phas­es, start­ing with an ini­tial order of 10 pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing air­craft of EH216‑S, as well a 10 EH216‑L car­go craft. 

These will be deployed at Kazakhstan’s first UAM oper­a­tions Cen­tre in Cen­tral Asia, sup­port­ing rou­tine flight oper­a­tions, tech­ni­cal train­ing for oper­a­tors and engi­neers, and air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion test­ing. The Cen­tre is to serve as a foun­da­tion for future com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

Andrey Lavren­tyev, Chair­man of Allur Group, com­ment­ed, “We are com­mit­ted to dri­ving Kazakhstan’s indus­tri­al mod­erni­sa­tion by intro­duc­ing advanced tech­nolo­gies. Col­lab­o­rat­ing with EHang will help us build a new three-dimen­sion­al air trans­porta­tion ecosys­tem.” 

He con­tin­ued, “We see this col­lab­o­ra­tion as a start­ing point to dri­ve inno­va­tion in urban mobil­i­ty, smart city devel­op­ment, logis­tics effi­cien­cy, and emer­gency response capa­bil­i­ties.”

Togeth­er with Syrym Semeibayev, First Deputy Chair­man of the Board and VP of Pro­duc­tion, Lavren­tyev vis­it­ed EHang’s Guangzhou HQ and Yufu pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty and held meet­ings with the company’s man­age­ment. Lavren­tyev expe­ri­enced a flight in the EH-216S.

Andrey Lavren­tyev the pas­sen­ger

The col­lab­o­ra­tion will focus on var­i­ous UAM appli­ca­tion sce­nar­ios includ­ing pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion, logis­tics and emer­gency response. 

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man, and CEO of EHang, remarked, “We are encour­aged by the increas­ing num­ber of glob­al part­ners choos­ing EHang and tak­ing our EH216‑S prod­ucts as a ref­er­ence to build oper­a­tional best prac­tices. With Kaza­khstan as a strate­gic launch­pad, we will repli­cate mature eVTOL tech­nolo­gies and inte­grat­ed ecosys­tem mod­els across Cen­tral Asia, advanc­ing cross-bor­der coop­er­a­tion in the low-alti­tude econ­o­my.”

In addi­tion, the par­ties will explore the estab­lish­ment of the first local eVTOL assem­bly facil­i­ty in Cen­tral Asia, with an annu­al pro­duc­tion esti­mat­ed of up to 200 EH216 series air­craft, serv­ing both Kaza­khstan and neigh­bour­ing mar­kets. 

EHang is to assist with intro­duc­ing key com­po­nents sup­pli­ers, includ­ing motors, bat­ter­ies, and avi­a­tion mate­ri­als, fos­ter­ing the devel­op­ment of a localised sup­ply chain.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/268172–65

(Top image: EHang and Allur Group sign the MOU)

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