Eve, the first spin-off from EmbraerX, launches into the Urban Air Mobility market

Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Solu­tions (Eve) has been launched as a new, inde­pen­dent com­pa­ny from EmbraerX, with its for­mer Head of Strat­e­gy Andre Stein becom­ing Eve’s new CEO.

Eve is devel­op­ing a full port­fo­lio of solu­tions to enable the UAM mar­ket and ulti­mate­ly ben­e­fit people’s lives, includ­ing the pro­gres­sion and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the company’s eVTOL vehi­cle, the asso­ci­at­ed com­pre­hen­sive ser­vices and sup­port net­work, and the cre­ation of urban air traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tions.

In a press release, Eve will ben­e­fit from ‘greater focus, speed, and agili­ty, allow­ing the com­pa­ny to inno­vate and exe­cute at an accel­er­at­ed pace in order to ful­ly cap­i­talise on the glob­al UAM oppor­tu­ni­ty’.

Join­ing Stein at Eve will be Luiz Valen­ti­ni as Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer, Chris Thorns­ber­ry as VP of Finance, and David Rot­tblatt as VP of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment. Also join­ing the Eve team will be Daniel de Cam­pos Teix­eira as Pro­gramme Lead and Daniel Moczyd­low­er as Chair­man of the Board. Luis Car­los Affon­so and Gary Spu­lak will act as Advi­so­ry Board Mem­bers.

Fran­cis­co Gomes Neto, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Embraer, said: “We val­ue the vast poten­tial of the UAM mar­ket, as it rep­re­sents a new busi­ness seg­ment in which we fore­see sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ties for Embraer. Inno­va­tion and diver­si­fi­ca­tion are key pil­lars of Embraer’s new strate­gic plan, which will increase rev­enue and improve prof­itabil­i­ty over the next few years.

“That is why I am eager to announce Eve, the first com­pa­ny to grad­u­ate from EmbraerX. Eve stands primed to cre­ate a new fron­tier in trans­porta­tion with intel­li­gent, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly, autonomous-ready air­craft and the asso­ci­at­ed ubiq­ui­tous sup­port and urban air traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tions.”

Ben­e­fit­ting from a start­up mind­set, backed by more than 50 years of Embraer’s his­to­ry of aero­space exper­tise, Eve says its human-cen­tered eVTOL design rep­re­sents an actu­al, cer­ti­fi­able prod­uct devel­op­ment, as evi­denced by the first flight of the engi­neer­ing sim­u­la­tor in July 2020.

The com­pa­ny is har­ness­ing the exper­tise of both Embraer and Ate­ch, a sub­sidiary of the Embraer Group, in pro­vid­ing glob­al­ly-recog­nised air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware to cre­ate the solu­tions that will help safe­ly scale the UAM indus­try going for­ward.

As part of the company’s ini­tia­tive to accel­er­ate the UAM rev­o­lu­tion, EmbraerX has been part of the Uber Ele­vate Net­work since its incep­tion in 2017.

Eric Alli­son, Head of Uber Ele­vate, added: “Eve’s launch is an impor­tant next step in com­mer­cial­is­ing Embraer’s eVTOL designs while build­ing on Embraer’s abil­i­ty to design, cer­ti­fy, and deliv­er safe, glob­al­ly-accept­ed air­craft. We look for­ward to our con­tin­ued part­ner­ship to make aer­i­al rideshar­ing a real­i­ty.”