Eve Air Mobility and InvestSP hold summit in Sao Paulo to accelerate regulation and infrastructure for eVTOL flights in Brazil

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty held a strate­gic meet­ing in São Paulo in part­ner­ship with Invest­SP, which brought togeth­er author­i­ties, reg­u­la­tors and oper­a­tors to dis­cuss and align the next steps for imple­ment­ing eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions in Brazil.

The ini­tia­tive addressed essen­tial top­ics to enable the start of com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in 2027, includ­ing reg­u­la­tion, infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment, such as ver­ti­ports and charg­ing sta­tions, and work­force train­ing in the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) indus­try.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “This meet­ing rein­forces our com­mit­ment to work­ing side by side with author­i­ties and strate­gic part­ners to enable the safe and effi­cient oper­a­tion of eVTOL in Brazil.

“We are advanc­ing not only in the devel­op­ment of the air­craft but also in build­ing a com­plete ecosys­tem that includes infra­struc­ture, reg­u­la­tion and work­force train­ing in the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty indus­try.”

Eve’s eVTOL will be pro­duced in Taubaté (SP) at a facil­i­ty with the capac­i­ty to man­u­fac­ture up to 480 units per year. The com­pa­ny already has around 2,800 glob­al orders, includ­ing firm orders and let­ters of intent, val­ued at approx­i­mate­ly US$14 bil­lion.

The mod­el accom­mo­dates five occu­pants (one pilot and four pas­sen­gers) and has a range of up to 100 kilo­me­ters, aim­ing to meet the demands of the UAM indus­try and serve short-dis­tance intra-urban and region­al mis­sions.

Thi­a­go Camar­go, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent of Invest­SP, said: “Eve chose the right loca­tion for eVTOL pro­duc­tion: the state with the largest econ­o­my in the coun­try, excel­lent infra­struc­ture, a skilled work­force and a busi­ness envi­ron­ment favor­able to inno­va­tion.

“Our goal now is to pro­mote strate­gic inte­gra­tion between the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors to ensure that oper­a­tions are safe, viable and sus­tain­able.”

Eve projects a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion in trav­el times on strate­gic urban routes, such as the con­nec­tion between São Paulo’s south­ern zone and Guarul­hos Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, from up to 150 min­utes by land to about 15 min­utes with the eVTOL.

Luiz Mauad, Vice Pres­i­dent of Cus­tomer Ser­vices at Eve, added: “The eVTOL has the poten­tial to trans­form not only pas­sen­ger trans­port but also sec­tors such as tourism, pub­lic safe­ty and health­care. The agili­ty in trans­port­ing organs for trans­plants, for exam­ple, can save lives and rede­fine effi­cien­cy stan­dards in major cities.”