EHang to build new manufacturing facility in China, capable of producing 600 AAVs every year

EHang will build a new autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cle (AAV) pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty in Yun­fu City, Guang­dong — which will ini­tial­ly be capa­ble of build­ing about 600 units every year.

Fol­low­ing an invest­ment of approx­i­mate­ly $6 mil­lion from the local gov­ern­ment, EHang says it aims to make the facil­i­ty ‘an indus­try-lead­ing AAV pro­duc­tion cen­tre, with an R&D facil­i­ty for air mobil­i­ty solu­tions and a train­ing cen­tre for oper­a­tions and tech­ni­cal tal­ents.’

Deputy May­or of Yun­fu City, Dong­hong Shi, attend­ed the launch cer­e­mo­ny and added that Yun­fu City Gov­ern­ment wel­comes and ful­ly sup­ports EHang’s deci­sion to estab­lish its new pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty for the cut­ting-edge AAV prod­ucts, which is expect­ed to bring strong vital­i­ty to the local high tech com­mu­ni­ties and cre­ate hun­dreds of new jobs.

EHang Founder, Chair­man and CEO, Huazhi Hu said: “The increas­ing mar­ket demands and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of AAVs in Chi­na are dri­ving us to expand our pro­duc­tion and upgrade our man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties. The EHang Yun­fu facil­i­ty serves as an expan­sion of our exist­ing facil­i­ty and will sup­port the growth of our air mobil­i­ty busi­ness in Chi­na.”

EHang select­ed Guangzhou as its first urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) pilot city in August 2019, where it plans to estab­lish a low-alti­tude avi­a­tion trans­porta­tion net­work to shut­tle pas­sen­gers and goods in a safe, envi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly and cost-effi­cient way.

This lat­est news fol­lows EHang announc­ing ear­li­er this week that its 216 AAV has obtained a Spe­cial Flight Oper­a­tions Cer­tifi­cate from Trans­port Cana­da, allow­ing it to per­form test flights in Que­bec Province.