Eve Chooses Suppliers for eVTOL Sensors, Guidance and Navigation, Seats and Flight Controls

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has cho­sen four addi­tion­al sup­pli­ers for its eVTOL Air­craft, reports a press release. Thales is to sup­ply a proven air data solu­tion, com­pris­ing sen­sors and a com­put­er; Hon­ey­well will pro­vide guid­ance, nav­i­ga­tion and exter­nal light­ing;. RECARO Air­craft Seat­ing is to con­tribute the eVTOL’s seats; and FACC the hor­i­zon­tal and ver­ti­cal tail includ­ing the rud­der and ele­va­tor.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve, com­ment­ed, “We have been very delib­er­ate in estab­lish­ing a long-term work­ing rela­tion­ship with our sup­pli­ers. Each agree­ment cov­ers the aircraft’s life cycle includ­ing pro­to­type, pro­duc­tion, as well as after­mar­ket ser­vice and oper­a­tional sup­port. We look for­ward to work­ing with them as we progress toward entry into ser­vice in 2026 and the future.” 

: Thales is to sup­ply a proven air data solu­tion, com­pris­ing sen­sors and com­put­er, which gath­er crit­i­cal data such as air­speed, alti­tude and envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions. The solu­tion then relays the infor­ma­tion to pilots and onboard sys­tems to ensure safe and effi­cient flight in all weath­er con­di­tions.

: Hon­ey­well will pro­vide guid­ance and nav­i­ga­tion prod­ucts includ­ing mag­ne­tome­ters, GPS-aid­ed atti­tude & head­ing ref­er­ence sys­tems, as well a iner­tial ref­er­ence sys­tems built upon decades of engi­neer­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing expe­ri­ence. These sys­tems are to relay and aid the pilots and oth­er onboard sys­tems to ensure safe and effi­cient flight. The com­pa­ny will also sup­ply exter­nal light­ing for the air­craft.

: RECARO Air­craft Seat­ing, a glob­al sup­pli­er of pre­mi­um air­craft seats for air­lines, OEMs and eVTOL air­craft, was cho­sen to design, cer­ti­fy and pro­duce the four pas­sen­ger and one pilot seats for the air­craft.

: FACC was select­ed to lead the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of the eVTOL’s hor­i­zon­tal and ver­ti­cal tail includ­ing its rud­der, ele­va­tor and the aircraft’s aileron. The com­pa­ny is recog­nised for its pro­duc­tion of light­weight com­po­nents rely­ing on inno­v­a­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­niques and tech­nol­o­gy.

Johann Bor­dais

These new sup­pli­ers are in addi­tion to Garmin, Lieb­herr Aero­space and Inter­galac­tic that were announced in Octo­ber and Nidec Aero­space, a joint ven­ture between Japan’s Nidec Cor­po­ra­tion and Brazil’s Embraer, BAE Sys­tems and DUC Hélices Pro­pellers which were announced at the Paris Air Show in the sum­mer.

Eve’s eVTOL lat­est flight con­cept includes an elec­tric push­er pow­ered by dual elec­tric motors that pro­vide propul­sion redun­dan­cy while ensur­ing high per­for­mance and safe­ty. While offer­ing numer­ous advan­tages includ­ing low­er cost of oper­a­tion, few­er parts, opti­mised struc­tures and sys­tems, it has been devel­oped to offer effi­cient thrust with low sound.

In July, the com­pa­ny announced that its first eVTOL pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty is to be locat­ed in the city of Taubaté, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The com­pa­ny has begun assem­bly of its first full-scale eVTOL pro­to­type which will be fol­lowed by a tri­al cam­paign in 2024.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://eveairmobility.com/#s1/1

(Top image: Cred­it — Eve Air Mobil­i­ty)

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