“Is VT35 a Gamechanger for EHang?”

What a social media fan­fare it’s been for EHang in recent days. X has been the pri­ma­ry out­let from brief VT35 video teasers to tan­ta­lis­ing air­craft glimpses. Then the reveal on Mon­day morn­ing. A 1’ 24” video on X, also post­ed on the front page of EHang’s web­site.

The EHang VT35 – a next-gen­er­a­tion long-range pilot­less pas­sen­ger eVTOL.
Dis­cov­er its excep­tion­al per­for­mance and intel­li­gent design shap­ing the future of low-alti­tude mobil­i­ty. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/SPlFNFpYmF

— EHang (@ehang) Octo­ber 13, 2025

Let’s be hon­est, the far too long­stand­ing EH216‑S was not only with­er­ing on the avi­a­tion vine, look­ing jad­ed and some­what weary, but where was it going? A tourist futur­is­tic fly­ing freak show. 

Once five hun­dred UAVs had been pur­chased or hired by dif­fer­ent Chi­nese tourism boards and after the pub­lic expe­ri­ence an autonomous scenic adven­ture, the nov­el­ty wears off. The EH216‑S was on a finan­cial jour­ney to no-where.

So, many con­grat­u­la­tions to EHang. Not only could the eVTOL VT35 save the com­pa­ny from future finan­cial dif­fi­cul­ty, but final­ly it is com­pet­ing with the glob­al big boys. The future promise is there for all too see. The com­pa­ny has grown up.

The post­ed video shown before an offi­cial pre­sen­ta­tion in Hefei, Chi­na, where the com­pa­ny has estab­lished a new indus­tri­al base for the air­craft, offers the EHang share­hold­er a huge ray of hope and opti­mism. 

Spot the dif­fer­ence!

The com­pa­ny describe the VT35 as a “next-gen­er­a­tion long-range pilot­less pas­sen­ger eVTOL”. It seems to be an evo­lu­tion of the ear­li­er VT30 demon­stra­tor, first unveiled in Sep­tem­ber 2021, and which intro­duced fixed wings to improve endurance com­pared to the company’s orig­i­nal mul­ti-copter con­cept. 

Accord­ing to EHang’s media thrust, the VT35 is designed for “cross-city, over-water, and moun­tain­ous routes, sig­nalling ambi­tions for longer-range region­al oper­a­tions.” 

https://www.ehang.com/vt35

The Hefei munic­i­pal gov­ern­ment con­firmed in August that the city will host the HQ, pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties and test oper­a­tions of the VT35 series. The project rep­re­sents a total invest­ment of USD140 mil­lion, with up to USD70 mil­lion in gov­ern­ment sup­port through orders, invest­ments and sup­ply chain coop­er­a­tion.

The VT35 has giv­en EHang a new con­fi­dence and ambi­tion

The unveil­ing fol­lows a land­mark year for EHang’s com­mer­cial efforts. In March 2025, the com­pa­ny announced that its sub­sidiaries, Guang­dong EHang Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion and Hefei HeYi Avi­a­tion, had received Air Oper­a­tor Cer­tifi­cates (AOCs) from the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC), enabling pas­sen­ger flights with the EH216‑S eVTOL. 

The EH216‑S became the first pilot­less pas­sen­ger eVTOL autho­rized for com­mer­cial oper­a­tions, oper­at­ing in lim­it­ed con­texts such as sight­see­ing flights and demon­stra­tion routes.

The VT35 now aims to extend this cer­ti­fied foun­da­tion toward high­er-capac­i­ty and longer-range appli­ca­tions. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

News Source: http://www.aerotime.aero/

(Top image: Graph­ic image of EHang VT35)

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