Eve agrees with Volatus Infrastructure to support vertiport automation

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has signed with Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture to sup­ply ver­ti­port automa­tion soft­ware to sup­port traf­fic man­age­ment of future eVTOL vehi­cles. Eve’s urban air traf­fic man­age­ment (UATM) soft­ware will be used to improve the capac­i­ty and effi­cien­cy of Vola­tus ver­ti­ports.

Eve co-CEO Andre Stein com­ment­ed: “In addi­tion to devel­op­ing a new eVTOL vehi­cle, Eve has become a recog­nised leader in devel­op­ing the infra­struc­ture and ecosys­tem need­ed to enable the safe and effi­cient oper­a­tion of eVTOLs around the world.

“This soft­ware will be specif­i­cal­ly designed to sup­port and max­imise the capac­i­ty and effi­cien­cy of ver­ti­ports instead of mod­i­fy­ing exist­ing soft­ware designed for oth­er pur­pos­es.

“This sup­ports our strat­e­gy of not only devel­op­ing an eVTOL, but also pro­vid­ing a com­pre­hen­sive suite of ser­vices and sup­port. By devel­op­ing a Ver­ti­port Automa­tion soft­ware for Vola­tus, we will help sup­port the effi­cient oper­a­tion and growth of the indus­try.”

Eve’s UATM soft­ware will enable the inte­gra­tion of all air­space users in the urban envi­ron­ment crit­i­cal to sup­port the safe­ty, effi­cien­cy, and improve­ment of the entire UAM ecosys­tem, includ­ing fleet and ver­ti­port oper­a­tors. This new col­lab­o­ra­tion rein­forces a shared com­mit­ment to safe­ly inte­grat­ing and scal­ing glob­al UAM oper­a­tions.

Vola­tus offers three main eVTOL infra­struc­ture designs, a ‘vehi­cle agnos­tic’ charg­ing sta­tion, plus an app and main­te­nance pro­grams. Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture Co-Founder Grant Fisk added: “Eve’s new ver­ti­port soft­ware will enable Vola­tus to ensure safe, reli­able and effi­cient eVTOL flight oper­a­tions.

“It is vital­ly impor­tant to get these sys­tems up and run­ning so that when the FAA approves the first eVTOL vehi­cle, we are ready to serve them. Togeth­er, we are lay­ing a rock-sol­id foun­da­tion that the UAM indus­try will be build­ing upon for decades.”

In Octo­ber, Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture and AIR estab­lished a part­ner­ship mak­ing Vola­tus one of AIR’s strate­gic part­ners for eVTOL infra­struc­ture and charg­ing, which allows AIR’s cus­tomers to use Vola­tus ver­ti­ports. AIR will also be over­see­ing busi­ness devel­op­ment for Vola­tus in Israel to help estab­lish the local eVTOL infra­struc­ture ecosys­tem.

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture Part­ners with eVTOL Man­u­fac­tur­er AIR

In Sep­tem­ber, Unit­ed Air­lines Ven­tures invest­ed $15 Mil­lion with Eve Air Mobil­i­ty after sign­ing a pur­chase agree­ment for up to 400 Eve eVTOL Air­craft, hav­ing already secured $10 mil­lion with Archer Avi­a­tion. The agree­ment cov­ers a con­di­tion­al pur­chase for 200 four-seater Eve eVTOL air­craft plus 200 options, with expect­ed first deliv­er­ies dur­ing 2026.

Unit­ed Air­lines invests USD15 mil­lion with Eve Air Mobil­i­ty