Eve Air Mobility wins orders for up to 80 eVTOLs

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has signed an agree­ment with air­craft lessor Nordic Avi­a­tion Cap­i­tal (NAC) to acquire 15 firm plus 15 option­al eVTOLs that will be leased to fleet oper­a­tors. The part­ner­ship also allows Eve and NAC to diver­si­fy port­fo­lios, encour­age envi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ment, and expand eVTOL leas­ing options.

“This part­ner­ship offers greater con­ve­nience and access to the lat­est and most advanced air trav­el solu­tions,” said Andre Stein, co-CEO of Eve. “With the sup­port of NAC, cre­at­ing strate­gic part­ner­ships will con­tin­ue to allow Eve to improve the net­work and acces­si­bil­i­ty of urban air mobil­i­ty.”

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty also announced the exten­sion of its part­ner­ship with Widerøe Zero in an agree­ment for up to 50 eVTOLs, a ser­vice and oper­a­tion solu­tions pack­age, and the imple­men­ta­tion of Eve’s Urban Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment soft­ware solu­tion.

“This new part­ner­ship builds upon a pre­vi­ous agree­ment signed between Eve and Widerøe Zero in 2021 at the UN Cli­mate Con­fer­ence (COP26), which aimed to devel­op eVTOL oper­a­tions in Scan­di­navia,” Stein added.

“This rein­forces our com­mit­ment to intro­duc­ing sus­tain­able, safe and afford­able urban air trav­el to the region. Togeth­er, we will dri­ve this trans­for­ma­tion and pave the way for a more acces­si­ble trans­porta­tion ecosys­tem for Scan­di­na­vian com­mu­ni­ties.”

Widerøe Zero CEO Andreas Aks con­tin­ued: “We are look­ing for­ward to an even clos­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with Eve in the years to come. From design­ing opti­mal cus­tomer jour­neys in our Mobil­i­ty Labs to defin­ing the future Con­cept of Oper­a­tion, and in 2027 to put the first Eve vehi­cles into rev­enue ser­vice.”

Eve will pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive ser­vices to include eVTOL main­te­nance, repair and over­haul (MRO), com­po­nent repair man­age­ment, spare parts man­age­ment pro­grams, bat­tery life­cy­cle man­age­ment, and data inte­gra­tion solu­tions, along­side oper­a­tions solu­tions, such as train­ing ser­vices, con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices, and on-site sup­port for fleet Entry Into Ser­vice.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the agree­ment involves imple­ment­ing Eve’s Urban ATM soft­ware to opti­mise the effi­cien­cy of Widerøe Zero’s UAM flight oper­a­tions by inte­grat­ing its eVTOLs with oth­er air­space users in low-lev­el air­space. Eve’s Urban ATM solu­tion offers inte­gra­tion with ver­ti­port automa­tion sys­tems, ver­ti­port resource avail­abil­i­ty man­age­ment, flight plan­ning and coor­di­na­tion ser­vices.

Anoth­er key high­light of the extend­ed part­ner­ship is the col­lab­o­ra­tion on the Air Mobil­i­ty Labs project across Nor­way. The project will dri­ve the devel­op­ment of future air mobil­i­ty con­cepts tai­lored to region­al needs.

The com­pa­nies will also col­lab­o­rate on devel­op­ing poten­tial solu­tions to address icing con­di­tions in eVTOL oper­a­tions. Widerøe’s exten­sive expe­ri­ence oper­at­ing in Nor­way, where icing con­di­tions are preva­lent, will pro­vide valu­able insights and exper­tise. Widerøe Zero’s vision of all domes­tic short-haul flights being elec­tric com­ple­ments Nor­way’s goal of achiev­ing car­bon-neu­tral avi­a­tion by 2040.