Eve and DHL to design eVTOL support supply chain concept

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and DHL Sup­ply Chain last week announced a study of key demands and sup­ply chain char­ac­ter­is­tics for Eve’s eVTOL oper­a­tion, the pri­ma­ry goal being to explore and under­stand best prac­tices for sup­ply­ing oper­a­tors and ser­vice cen­tres with spare parts and inputs.

With an empha­sis on bat­ter­ies and the spe­cif­ic require­ments of trans­port, stor­age and dis­pos­al of those devices, oth­er aspects reviewed will include modes of trans­porta­tion, fre­quen­cy, and deliv­ery plan, required logis­tics part­ners, poten­tial loca­tions for advanced inven­to­ries, phys­i­cal and tech­no­log­i­cal infra­struc­ture require­ments and con­tin­gency plans.

“DHL’s exper­tise in the aero­nau­ti­cal mar­ket and oth­er indus­tries, cou­pled with the inno­v­a­tive mind­set of both com­pa­nies, will be vital to ensure the safe oper­a­tion of eVTOLs,” said Luiz Mauad, Vice Pres­i­dent of Ser­vices and Oper­a­tions Solu­tions at Eve.

“In addi­tion to offer­ing high-per­for­mance logis­tics, our premise is to reduce the envi­ron­men­tal impact of the sup­ply chain in line with our pur­pose of offer­ing more sus­tain­able prod­ucts and ser­vices.”

DHL Sup­ply Chain VP Mauri­cio Almei­da added: “We are con­tribut­ing all our knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence to make this anoth­er great suc­cess­ful project devel­oped by the Brazil­ian aero­space indus­try, with ben­e­fits for major cities around the world.”

The study will encom­pass the dis­tri­b­u­tion of parts and mate­ri­als required for repairs and main­te­nance, as well as bat­tery logis­tics. The com­pa­nies will also eval­u­ate sup­ply chain man­age­ment for gen­er­al sup­plies to ver­ti­ports.

Con­tin­u­ing to achieve sig­nif­i­cant mile­stones in the devel­op­ment of its eVTOL, Eve holds the largest back­log in the urban air mobil­i­ty indus­try of up to 2,850 air­craft. Among its accom­plish­ments are the cre­ation of dis­tinc­tive urban air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware and the estab­lish­ment of a net­work of ser­vices and oper­a­tional solu­tions. The first eVTOL deliv­er­ies and entry into ser­vice are expect­ed as ear­ly as 2026.

Ear­li­er this month, Eve Air Mobility’s Board of Direc­tors appoint­ed Johann Bor­dais, cur­rent pres­i­dent and CEO of Embraer Ser­vices & Sup­port, as CEO effec­tive from Sep­tem­ber, while Eve’s co-CEOs, Andre Stein and Jer­ry DeMuro, remain at Eve with new roles.

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty appoints Embraer’s Johann Bor­dais as CEO, with Andre Stein and Jer­ry DeMuro to remain in new roles