EHang to Conduct EH216 Trial Flights in Curitiba, Brazil

EHang plans to car­ry out EH216 tri­al flights in Curiti­ba, Brazil dur­ing March after a pro­pos­al was pre­sent­ed to the May­or of the cap­i­tal of Paraná, Rafael Gre­ca, last week, reports mundogeo.com.

The aim is that a first autonomous demon­stra­tion, will be car­ried out dur­ing the Smart City Curiti­ba Expo, held between March 22nd and 24th. Also, EHang, through its rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Brazil, AT Glob­al, is to seek full com­mer­cial cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for the EH216 with the Brazil­ian Nation­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency (ANAC).

Alexan­dre Dal­tro, CEO of AT Glob­al, com­ment­ed, “Curiti­ba is the nat­ur­al choice being a smart and inno­v­a­tive city. To spread the cul­ture of a new form of mobil­i­ty, we could not have a bet­ter show­case for our prod­uct.”

Accord­ing to Dal­tro, this is the first step in cre­at­ing, dur­ing 2023, a region­al head­quar­ters in the south of Brazil as well as a cen­tre for logis­tics, fire­fight­ing and air taxis in Curiti­ba.

Elaine Zanon and Busi­ness Part­ner, Clau­dia Macha­do (Cred­it: Arquitetare)

EHang will also pro­mote itself to rel­e­vant nation­al and local gov­ern­ment depart­ments, while pro­vid­ing full sup­port for com­mer­cial oper­a­tions, sales and ser­vices, pro­duc­tion and infra­struc­ture con­struc­tion around Brazil.

In addi­tion a ver­ti­port project, devel­oped by Elaine Zanon, Founder of Design com­pa­ny, Arquitetare, an all-woman busi­ness, was also pre­sent­ed to the Rafael Gre­ca May­or. An ini­tial pro­pos­al is to install the struc­ture in Barigui Park.

Zanon remarked, “This pro­pos­al places urban air mobil­i­ty with­in the city, help­ing peo­ple to get to know this new form of trans­port. This would then be repli­cat­ed around Brazil.”

The via­bil­i­ty of installing the ver­ti­port will first be eval­u­at­ed includ­ing the nec­es­sary invest­ment required, as well as the exact loca­tion of its instal­la­tion with­in the Park.

Pro­posed Curiti­ba Ver­ti­port Design (Cred­it: Arquitetare)

EHang’s plans to expand into Brazil has been influ­enced by a USD10 mil­lion equi­ty invest­ment from Qing­dao West Coast New Area in Decem­ber. The organ­i­sa­tion, which is one of China’s gov­ern­ment-backed “nation­al new areas,” has fur­ther agreed to a poten­tial addi­tion­al USD10 mil­lion invest­ment in the future. EHang says it is using the funds as work­ing cap­i­tal.

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(News Source: https://mundogeo.com)

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